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Twitter: @UCDPress28th May 2014 · Hardback
A complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English....
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Presents an exposition of the author's sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of...
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call...
8th May 2014 · Hardback
Including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, this title contains two substantial supplements: a long and...
19th February 2007 · Hardback
The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on...
28th November 2005 · Hardback
Includes essay 'On Seeing in Nature', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of...
8th December 2010 · Hardback
Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth...
1st April 2010 · Hardback
Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the...
5th January 2009 · Hardback
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...
18th November 2013 · Hardback
Vol. 17 of the Collected Works can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. In the last decade...
5th September 2011 · Hardback
Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked...
11th June 2010 · Hardback
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...
24th June 2013 · Hardback
First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation,...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe...
25th April 2009 · Hardback
Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book...
5th October 2009 · Hardback
Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...
9th October 2008 · Hardback
Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community...
