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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Contributors 11 Acknowledgements 12 1 Towards a ‘central theory’: the scope and relevance of the sociology of Norbert Elias 13 Introduction 13 Elias’s major works: an intellectual and historiographical route-map 20 Elaborations: the scope and relevance of ‘figurational sociology’ 30 Notes 31 References 32 Part I Sociology as a human science: Norbert Elias and the sociology of knowledge 35 2 From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias’s theory of involvement and detachment 37 Introduction: after Weber 37 Weber scrutinized: Mannheim, Kris and Elias 39 Involvement and detachment as a balance 43 Secondary involvement and the sociological vocation 45 Concluding remarks: detachment in a new key 48 Note 51 References 51 3 Ecology, ‘human nature’ and civilizing processes: biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias 54 Introduction 54 Sociology as science: contributions to epistemology and the sociology of knowledge 56 Reflexive evolution of humanity 63 The biosphere within the anthroposphere 64 Conclusion 67 Notes 68 References 69 4 Between the real and the reified: Elias on time 71 Introduction

Author

Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley (edt)

Language

EN