
ISBN: 9780631221616
author:
Norbert Elias
publishing house: Blackwell Publishing
publication date: 2000
-7
language:
English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 63.95
number of pages: 592
Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation
Norbert Elias
overview
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.