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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Civilization, Habitus and Civilizing Processes; The development of civilization as a concept; Changes in social and individual habitus; Socialization, aggression and shame; 3 Violence, Habitus and State Formation; Violence monopolies and pacification; Linearity, development and evolution; On the concepts of violence and civilization; 4 Identity, Violence and Process Models; Interdependence, social bonds and the we-I balance; Established-outsider relations; Criteria of civilizing and decivilizing processes.;This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought - violence and civilization. Although Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, this study highlights the crucial importance of the concept of decivilizing processes. Fletcher argues that while Elias did not develop a theory of decivilizing processes, such a theory is logically implied in his perspective and is highly pertinent to an understanding of the most violent episodes of twentieth-century history, such as the Nazi genocides.<br.

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Author

Fletcher, Jonathan;

Publisher

Polity Press;Wiley

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745614342

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences