| On the Process of Civilisation: Volume 3 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Elias, Norbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906359040 ISBN-13: 9781906359041 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 909 |
| LCCN: 2013431756 |
| Series: Collected Works Norbert Elias |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (2.60 lbs) 676 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is Volume 3 in the Collected Works of Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott. Recognised as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, On the Process of Civilisation has been influential and widely discussed across the whole range of the humanities and social sciences. This sumptuous new edition, completely revised with many corrections and clarifications, includes colour plates of all the 13 drawings from Das Mittelaterliche Hausbuch to which Elias refers in his famous discussion of 'Scenes from the life of a knight'. Beginning with his celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, Elias demonstrates how 'psychological' changes in habitus and emotion management were linked to wider transformations in power relations, especially the monopolisation of violence and taxation by more increasingly effective state apparatuses. |