Norbert Elias
Subtitle: post-philosophical sociology
By: Richard Kilminster.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415437066
Subjects: Elias, Norbert, -- 1897-1990; Sociology
Table of contents: title: Understanding Elias; title: Origins of Elias's synthesis; title: Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim; title: The civilizing process : the structure of a classic; title: Involved detachment : knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias; title: The symbol theory : secular humanism as a research programme; title: Concluding remarks : the fourth blow to man's narcissism.