Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate: Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984

Artur Bogner (Curatore)

Stephen Mennell (Curatore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023

In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on ‘Civilisations and civilising processes’ at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld). Participants included the most distinguished and influential scholars in historical sociology and world history. This book will make available, for the first time in one place, the papers presented by the speakers and, even more interestingly, the transcripts of discussions at the symposium. This conference brought together eminent and internationally reputed scholars of macro-history and historical sociology including Johann P. Arnason, Elias, Hans-Dieter Evers, Johan Goudsblom, Keith Hopkins, William H. McNeill, and Immanuel Wallerstein. This highly informative encounter between various leading scholars of humanity’s global social history has never before been published, although it was completely recorded on paper and in tape recordings. Its publication in one volume should be an important event for all students of the long-term structural transformations of humanity.

• Curatore: Artur Bogner, Stephen Mennell
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 295 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030803810

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