The Civilizing Process - Elias, Norbert

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Résumé :
The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the civilizing of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever....

Biographie:
Norbert Elias (1897-1990) taught at the University of Frankfurt until his exile from Hitler's Germany. In Britain, he worked at the Universities of London and Leicester, and in retirement was visiting professor in Ghana, Amsterdam, Munster, Bielefeld and many other universities. By the time of his death he was recognized as one of the outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century. His previous Blackwell books include: The Norbert Elias Reader, The Court Society, The Loneliness of the Dying, Involvement and Detachment, Time: An Essay, The Society of Individuals and, with Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement....

Sommaire:
Preface.

Acknowledgements to the English Translation.

Editors' Note to the Revised Translation.

Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classes in the West:.

Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of Civilisation and Culture:.

1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization in German Usage.

1. Introduction.

2. The Development of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization.

3. Examples of Courtly Attitudes in Germany.

4. The Middle Class and the Court Nobility in Germany.

5. Literary Examples of the Relationship of the German Middle-Class Intelligentsia to the Court.

6. The Recession of the Social and the Advance of the National Element in the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization.

2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in France.

7. Introduction.

8. Sociogenesis of Physiocratism and the French Reform Movement.

Part II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human Behaviour:.

9. The History of the Concept of Civilite.

10. On Medieval Manners.

11. The Problem of Change in Behaviour during the Renaissance.

12. On Behaviour at Table.

13. Changes in Attitude Towards the Natural Functions.

14. On Blowing One's Nose.

15. On Spitting.

16. On Behaviour in the Bedroom.

17. Changes in Attitude Towards the Relations Between Men and Women.

18. On Changes in Aggressiveness.

19. Scenes From the Life of a Knight.

Volume II: State Formation and Civilization:.

Part III: Feudalization and State Formation:.

Introduction.

20. Survey of Courtly Society.

21. A Prospective Glance at the Sociogenesis of Absolutism.

1. Dynamics of Feudalization.

22. Introduction.

23. Centralizing and Decentralizing Forces in the Medieval Power Figuration.

24. The Increase in Population after the Migration.

25. Some Observations on the Sociogenesis of the Crusades.

26. The Internal Expansion of Society: The Formation of New Social Organs and Instruments. Preface.

Acknowledgements to the English Translation.

Editors' Note to the Revised Translation.

Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classes in the West:.

Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of Civilisation and Culture:.

1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization in German Usage.

1. Introduction.

2. The Development of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization.

3. Examples of Courtly Attitudes in Germany.

4. The Middle Class and the Court Nobility in Germany.

5. Literary Examples of the Relationship of the German Middle-Class Intelligentsia to the Court.

6. The Recession of the Social and the Advance of the National Element in the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization.

2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in France.

7. Introduction.

8. Sociogenesis of Physiocratism and the French Reform Movement.

Part II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human Behaviour:.

9. The History of the Concept of Civilite.

10. On Medieval Manners.

11. The Problem of Change in Behaviour during the Renaissance.

12. On Behaviour at Table.

13. Changes in Attitude Towards the Natural Functions.

14. On Blowing One's Nose.

15. On Spitting.

16. On Behaviour in the Bedroom.

17. Changes in Attitude Towards the Relations Between Men and Women.

18. On Changes in Aggressiveness.

19. Scenes From the Life o...