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Informationen zum Autor NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied with Alfred Weber in Heidelberg and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. On Hitler's coming to power! he went into exile! first in France and then in Britain. His magnum opus The Civilizing Process received little attention when it was published in Switzerland in 1939 and only after Elias's formal retirement in 1962 were most of his other books and essays published. International intellectual celebrity came to him right at the end of his long life. RICHARD KILMINSTER is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds; STEPHEN MENNELL is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. Klappentext Eleven of the 18 essays by Norbert Elias collected in this volume have not been published previously in English! and several of the remainder were not easily obtained. The themes of this volume represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in The Civilizing Process. The topics include violence and civilization; the civilizing of parents; privacy; conflict and change within communities; public opinion and national character in Britain; the charismatic leadership of Adolf Hitler; and the fear of death. Zusammenfassung Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title includes topics such as: violence and civilisation; the civilising of parents; privacy; conflict and change within communities; and fear of death. Inhaltsverzeichnis Norbert Elias! 1897-1990; Note on the text; Civilisation; What I mean by civilisation: reply to Hans-Peter Duerr; The civilising of parents; L'espace prive - 'private space' or 'private room'?; Foreword to Horst-Volker Krumrey! Entwicklungsstrukturen von Verhaltensstandarden; Technisation and civilisation; Power and civilisation; Processes of state formation and nation building; Towards a theory of communities; Afterword to Meike Behrmann and Carmine Abate! Die Germanesi; Inquest on German Jewry; The charismatic leader; Gentlemen and tarpaulins; Drake and Doughty: a paradigmatic case study; Public opinion in Britain; National peculiarities of British public opinion; Fear of death; Has hope a future?; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index. ...
