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.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding Elias
• Origins of Elias's synthesis
• Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
• The civilizing process : the structure of a classic
• Involved detachment : knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias
• The symbol theory : secular humanism as a research programme
• Concluding remarks : the fourth blow to man's narcissism.