Norbert Elias and social theory
By: edited by François Dépelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781137312105
Subjects: Sociology; History; Social sciences; Philosophy
Description: Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the twentieth century. The contributions collected in Norbert Elias and Social Theory discuss the specificites, the strengths, and the limits of Elias's sociology by considering its similarities and its differences with other important classical (Epicure, Freud, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel) and contemporary (Manheim, Fromm, Arendt, Bauman, and Bourdieu) social theories. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction / Tatiana Savoia Landini and François Depelteau; title: Understanding Elias; title: Main principles of Eliaśs sociology/ Tatiana Savoia Landini; title: Five misunderstandings of eliaśs thought / Nathalie Heinich; title: Ariel or Caliban? the civilizing process and its critiques / François Dépelteau, Enio Passiani and Ricardo Mariano; title: Elias and classical social theory; title: The epicurean in Elias Anna-Louise Barbara Evers; title: Elias, Freud and the human sciences / Bernard Lahire; title: Contradiction and interdependency : the sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias / Chris Powell; title: Past and present in sociological theory : similarities and differences between Emile Durkheim and Norbert Elias / Enio Passiani; title: Norbert Elias and Emile Durkheim : seeds of a historical sociology of knowledge / Hector Vera; title: Irony as vocation / Marta Bucholc; title: Taking up the torch from Max Weber : Norbert Elias and the challenging of classical sociology / Markus Schroer and Jessica Wilde; title: From Elias back to Simmel Leopoldo Waizbort; title: Elias and contemporary social theory; title: Norbert Elias and Karl Manheim : contrasting perspectives on the sociology of knowledge / Richard Kilminster; title: Under the shadow of the authoritarian personality : Elias, Fromm, and alternative social psychologies of authoritarianism / Tim Berard; title: Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on philosophy, sociology and science / Philip Walsh; title: Individualization and social dis/integration in "postmodernity" : a comparative note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias / John flint and ryan powell; title: Comparing elias and bourdieu as relational thinkers François Dépelteau; title: From figuration to coordination : an analysis of social interdependence mechanisms / Jean-Hugues Déchaux.