Norbert Elias post-philosophical sociology /

• Main Author: Kilminster, Richard.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
• Subjects: Elias, Norbert, > 1897-1990.; Sociology.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. > Anthropology; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 209 p.)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0415437067 (Cloth); 9780415437066 (Cloth); 0203939301 (electronic bk.); 9780203939307 (electronic bk.)

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic 'war on all your houses'. His sociology of the 'human condition' sweeps aside the contemporary focus on 'modernity' and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all, philoso.