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Early Writings: Collected Works of Norbert Elias, Vol 1
Edited By Richard Kilminster Edmund Jephcott
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The writings in this volume previously unpublished in English include the essay 'On Seeing in Nature', his doctoral dissertation 'Idea and Individual', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper. Other essays collected together here concern primitive art, the sociology of German anti-Semitism, kitsch style and the age of kitsch, and the expulsion of the Huguenots from France. This edition includes as an appendix a draft outline of Elias' Habilitation thesis begun under Alfred Weber. "Early Writings" have been translated from the German edition, Fruschriften, published by Suhrkamp ... Read more
The writings in this volume previously unpublished in English include the essay 'On Seeing in Nature', his doctoral dissertation 'Idea and Individual', a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper. Other essays collected together here concern primitive art, the sociology of German anti-Semitism, kitsch style and the age of kitsch, and the expulsion of the Huguenots from France. This edition includes as an appendix a draft outline of Elias' Habilitation thesis begun under Alfred Weber. "Early Writings" have been translated from the German edition, Fruschriften, published by Suhrkamp ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558392
SKU
V9781904558392
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About Edited By Richard Kilminster Edmund Jephcott
NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied with Alfred Weber in Mannheim and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. On Hitler's coming to power, he went into exile. His magnum opus The Civilising Process received little attention when it was published in Switzerland in 1939 and it was only after Elias's ... Read more
Reviews for Early Writings: Collected Works of Norbert Elias, Vol 1
"As always we are glad to see Irish publishers recognising and catering for the rest of the world. In this case the typography and binding (full cloth, with acetate jacket, silk bands and ribbon) would make any publisher proud." Books Ireland, Feb 2006 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of ... Read more