Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will a

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will a

In this profound book, Elias characteristically turns an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. Wha

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1