Norbert Elias and Social Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Main Principles of Elias’s Sociology....Pages 13-30
Five Misunderstandings of Elias’s Thought....Pages 31-39
Ariel or Caliban? The Civilizing Process and Its Critiques....Pages 41-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Epicurean in Elias....Pages 63-74
Elias, Freud, and the Human Science....Pages 75-89
Contradiction and Interdependency: The Sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias....Pages 91-107
Past and Present in Sociological Theory: Some Similarities and Differences between Émile Durkheim and Norbert Elias....Pages 109-125
Norbert Elias and Émile Durkheim: Seeds of a Historical Sociology of Knowledge....Pages 127-141
Irony as Vocation: The Fate of a Social Scientist in the Writings of Max Weber and Norbert Elias....Pages 143-160
Taking Up the Torch from Max Weber: Norbert Elias and the Challenging of Classical Sociology....Pages 161-178
From Elias Back to Simmel....Pages 179-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim: Contrasting Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge....Pages 191-207
Under the Shadow of The Authoritarian Personality: Elias, Fromm, and Alternative Social Psychologies of Authoritarianism....Pages 209-243
Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science....Pages 245-260
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society: A Comparative Note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias....Pages 261-274
Comparing Elias and Bourdieu as Relational Thinkers....Pages 275-295
From Figuration to Coordination: An Analysis of Social Interdependence Mechanisms....Pages 297-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-319