Book norbert elias and social theory of personality

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the twentieth century The contributions collected in Norbert Elias and Social Theory discuss the specificities the strengths and the limits of Elias s sociology by considering its similarities and its differences with other important classical Epicure Freud Marx Durkheim Weber and Simmel and contemporary Manheim Fromm Arendt Bauman and Bourdieu social theories Editors Fran ois D pelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini have compiled an essential and comprehensive volume on a quintessential thinker Norbert Elias and Social Theory