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The Society of Individuals stands as testimony to the coherence of Norbert Elias's viewpoint over a long and distinguished career. Consisting of three interrelated essays, the first written in 1939, the second between 1940 and 1950, and the third in 1987, this book addresses the central question: what is the relation of the plurality of people to the single person we call the 'individual', and of the single person to the plurality? Part I, composed simultaneously with volume two of The Civilizing Process, represents Elias's first attempt at resolving this cardinal sociological problem. Part II marks a return to the theme, central to Elias's work: that the individual and society are not separate things, but only two differing perspectives. Part III returns again to the problem - this time considering the fundamental concept of the 'we-I balance', indicating that the relation of the 'I-identity' to the 'we-identity' of an individual is not fixed once and for all, but subject to very specific transformations. The Society of Individuals, winner of the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1988, represents Elias writing at the height of his powers.
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NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied in Breslau and Heidelberg and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. In exile after 1933, first in France and then in Britain, he wrote his magnum opus The Civilizing Process. At its ill-timed publication in 1939, it received little note. Only after his formal retirement in 1962 was the book reissued in German and translated into many other languages. That, and a flood of other books and essays, made him an international intellectual celebrity towards the end of his long life. His whole oeuvre is now appearing in new scholarly editions in the Collected Works in English. ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN is Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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- PublisherBlackwell Pub
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0631164197
- ISBN 13 9780631164197
- BindingHardcover
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