Search Results for: The Collected Works Of Norbert Elias

"Involvement and Detachment" is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias' major exposition of his sociological theory of

A discussion of techniques used by rulers to assert leadership and social control includes a comparison of the regimes of Louis XIV in France and Adolf Hitler i

In this profound book, Elias characteristically turns an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. Wha

This book contains Elias's broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionali