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Involvement and Detachment is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias's major exposition of his sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of overall human social development. From The Collected Works of Norbert Elias.

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∗ Norbert Elias is one of the most important thinkers of our time. ∗ This is Elias′s last great work, and it displays all the breadth, brilliance and originality of his other major writings.

In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting many common misunderstandings of his thinking and further developing ideas sketched out in his writings. This volume can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. Volume 17 in The Collected Works of Norbert Elias.

First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation, this edition features his original English text of the essay 'The breakdown of civilisation'. It includes essays on duelling and its wider social significance, as well as on post-war terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. This title proceeds to recast the question of the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond the old philosophical dualisms of idealism/materialism.

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Now available in paperback, Mozart is a brilliant study of the great composer′s life and creative genius, written by one of the most important social thinkers of our time. In Mozart, Elias provides insight into this case of tragic conflict between personal creativity and the tastes of a society which sought to control it.

Including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, this title contains two substantial supplements: a long and important critique on Freud written in the last weeks of Elias' life, and an essay on the anthropologist-philosopher Lucien Levy-Bruhl and the problem of 'the logical unity of humankind'.

Acknowledgments Introduction I: Civilization 1: The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint 2: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties 3: The Development of the Concept of Civilite 4: The Changing Functions of Etiquette 5: Mozart: The Artist in the Human Being 6: The Loneliness of the Dying II: Power 7: Game Models 8: On the Monopoly Mechanism 9: The Decay of the State Monopoly of Violence in the Weimar Republic 10: The Genesis of Sport ...

This classic study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV, has long been out of print. Here Elias shows how courtiers - and finally even the king himself - were entrapped in web of etiquette and ceremony, how their expenses, even down to details of their houses and household, were dictated by their rank rather than their income.

Eleven of the 18 essays by Norbert Elias collected in this volume have not been published previously in English, and several of the remainder were not easily obtained. The themes of this volume represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in The Civilizing Process. The topics include violence and civilization, the civilizing of parents, privacy, conflict and change within communities, public opinion and national ...