This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Norbert Elias's work.

This book contains Elias's broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionali

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

Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thi