Elias Collected Works

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Norbert Elias

28th May 2014 · Hardback

A complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English....

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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,...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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 of the...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

1st April 2010 · Hardback

Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying over the...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

9th October 2008 · Hardback

Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are...

Norbert Elias

9th October 2008 · Hardback

Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community studied in...

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...

Norbert Elias

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 overall human...

Norbert Elias

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...

Norbert Elias

2nd December 2005 · Hardback

A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV....