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Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century. He is particularly well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach. This book compares Norbert Elias's approach and works with other important social theories and some selected key issues, such as Elias' take on sport. The contributors to this collection, many of whom are internationally well-known specialists, compare Elias with classical social theorists, as well as contemporary social scientists, creating a comprehensive view of this quintessential thinker.
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Synopsis
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 specificities, the strengths, and the limits of Elias's sociology by considering its
Synopsis
This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary.
About the Author
Francois Delpeteau is Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University Tatiana Savoia Landini is Professora adjunta, Department of Social Sciences, Universidade Federal De Sao Paulo
Table of Contents
Introduction; Tatiana Savoia Landini and François Depelteau
SECTION I : UNDERSTANDING ELIAS
1. Main Principles of Elias´s Sociology; Tatiana Savoia Landini
2. Five misunderstandings of Elias´s Thought; Nathalie Heinich
3. Ariel or Caliban? The Civilizing Process and its critiques; François Dépelteau, Enio Passiani and Ricardo Mariano
SECTION II: ELIAS AND CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY
4. The Epicurean in Elias; Anna-Louise Barbara Evers
5. Elias, Freud and the Human Sciences; Bernard Lahire
6. Contradiction and Interdependency: the sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias; Chris Powell
7. Past and Present in Sociological Theory: similarities and differences between Émile Durkheim and Norbert Elias; Enio Passiani
8. Norbert Elias and Émile Durkheim: seeds of a historical sociology of knowledge; Hector Vera
9. Irony as vocation; Marta Bucholc
10. Taking up the torch from Max Weber: Norbert Elias and the challenging of classical sociology; Markus Schroer and Jessica Wilde
11. From Elias back to Simmel; Leopoldo Waizbort
SECTION III: ELIAS AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
12. Norbert Elias and Karl Manheim: contrasting perspectives on the sociology of knowledge; Richard Kilminster
13. Under the Shadow of the Authoritarian Personality: Elias, Fromm, and Alternative Social Psychologies of Authoritarianism; Tim Berard
14. Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology and Science; Philip Walsh
15. Individualization and social dis/integration in "postmodernity": A comparative note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias; John Flint and Ryan Powell
16. Comparing Elias and Bourdieu as relational thinkers; François Dépelteau
17. From figuration to coordination: an analysis of social interdependence mechanisms; Jean-Hugues Déchaux