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 in Antiquity 11: The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in Ancient Rome III: Knowledge 12: Involvement and Detachment 13: Observations on Gossip 14: Time and Timing 15: Homo Clausus: The Thinking Statues Bibliography Index