8th May 2014 · Hardback
Including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, this title contains two substantial supplements: a long and important critique...
11th September 1998 · Paperback / softback
Gives an introduction to Norbert Elias' work that is not part of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias"....
23rd February 2007 · Hardback
Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is...
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, this edition...
19th February 2007 · Hardback
The emergence of the naval officer was related to the necessities of naval warfare and the structure of society on land. Originally...
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...
6th June 2012 · Hardback
A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as...
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,...
11th June 2010 · Hardback
Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more than a...
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...
2nd December 2005 · Hardback
A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....