Human Figurations journal – third issue live online
Human Figurations: Long-term Perspectives on the Human Condition is a new journal supported and sponsored by the Norbert Elias Foundation. The unifying theme of the journal Human Figurations is a broad concern with long-term processes of the development of human society and the human condition.
The third issue is live online, the contents are:
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Editor’s Introduction | Liston, Katie |
| The Advancement of Humanity | Mazlish, Bruce |
| Water is not (yet) a commodity: Commodification and rationalization revisited | Castro, José Esteban |
| American Civilization | Jones, Charles A. |
| Emotions and Habitus of Officers as Reflected in Great Literature: The Case of the Habsburg Army from 1848 to 1918 | Kuzmics, Helmut |
| Manufacturing Austerity in the Eurozone | Clement, Matt |
| Norbert Elias and the Habits of Good Sociology | Hughes, Jason |
| Book Reviews |
More information about the journal is below. If you’d like to submit a paper for consideration please email humanfigurations@me.com.
While Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, he wrote on an astonishing range of topics, including violence, war, sport, ageing and dying, time, work, art, music, poetry, utopias and the relations between the sexes. Fundamentally, he advanced what have been called both a ‘post-philosophical’ theory of knowledge and the sciences, and an ‘historical social psychology’. His conception of the discipline of sociology was far broader than that which has now become institutionalized in the rather narrow departments of sociology in contemporary universities. In consequence, he inspires researchers from many disciplines, especially people working in the interstices between conventional disciplines: history (especially world historians and social historians), criminology, international relations, anthropology and political science. Human Figurations will attract contributions from across these fields, the unifying theme being a broad concern with long-term processes of the development of human society and the human condition.