Overview
- Makes available for the first time debates between major figures in the study of world history and social development
- Collects as-yet unpublished papers of Evers, Wallerstein,, McNeill, Elias, Hopkins, and Arnason
- Recounts one of the most important phases in the development of macro-history, global history, and macro-sociology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (PSNE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Artur Bogner, Dr (Social Sciences), then secretary to Norbert Elias and Research Assistant at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld, was the principal organiser of the conference which is the subject of this book. In recent decades, as a researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the University of Bayreuth, he has conducted field research and published on topics related to armed conflicts and peacebuilding in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He served as General Editor of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias, published in eighteen volumes by UCD Press, and as a member of the board of the Norbert Elias foundation from 1997 to 2016. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate
Book Subtitle: Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984
Editors: Artur Bogner, Stephen Mennell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80379-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80378-0Published: 01 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80381-0Published: 02 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80379-7Published: 28 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-3102
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 295
Topics: Sociological Theory, Historical Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse, Social Theory, Political Sociology