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 short stories...
5th January 2009 · Hardback
Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title includes topics...
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 of his life,...
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 through communication...
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 since the...
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 shows how...
5th October 2009 · Hardback
Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range...