Norbert Elias: Post-Philosophical Sociology
Author:   Richard Kilminster (University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138011335


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 April 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Norbert Elias: Post-Philosophical Sociology


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Author:   Richard Kilminster (University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781138011335


ISBN 10:   1138011339
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Understanding Elias 2. Origins of Elias’s Synthesis 3. Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim 4. The Civilizing Process: The Structure of a Classic 5. Involved Detachment: Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Elias 6. The Symbol Theory: Secular Humanism as a Research Programme 7. Concluding Remarks: The Fourth Blow to Man’s Narcissism?

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Richard Kilminster is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. His research interests are in sociological theory and the sociology of knowledge. He is an authority on the life and work of Norbert Elias. The present book compliments the author’s The Sociological Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Global Age (Routledge 1998, reprinted 2000) which relates Elias’s perspective to mainstream sociology.

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