The good of civilization
Posted on July 27, 2006 by Chris Powell Hello all, I’d first like to thank the organizers of “Elias in the 21st Century” for a very successful and enormously stimulating conference! I have a question that I’d like to put...
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Read moreFigurational account of early modern diplomacy
Posted on January 4, 2006 by Colin Keaveney Dear list members, Can someone point me to studies of early modern diplomacy that take a figurational approach or that might facilitate such an approach (i.e. account of state formation combined with...
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Read moreWebsite for homicide research
Posted on July 18, 2005 by Pieter Spierenburg Dear list members, Anyone interested in (the history of) homicide may want to add this website to his bookmarks. Pieter Spierenburg
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Read moreElias und Simmel
Posted on July 11, 2005 by John Lever Dear List, is there any work out there comparing the work of Elias and Simmel? I seem to remember something, somewhere, maybe from an edition of Figurations, or was it Elias and...
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Read moreElias and Foucault’s ‘technologies of the self’
Posted on October 25, 2004 by Bradly Nitins I have, perhaps, tapped the accumulated wisdom of this list far too much of late, nevertheless i venture to test your generosity once again. I have lately been thinking about the relationship...
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Read moreA pre-packaged discussion for further discussion (version 2)
Posted on July 20, 2004 by Stephen Mennell In the middle of July, Ruud Stokvis sent me a review of The Sociology of Norbert Elias, edited Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), which will appear in...
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Read moreRespectability
Posted on July 19, 2004 by Bradly Nitins Dear All, I am researching codes of conduct in Victorian England. I believe that the code of Victorian ‘respectability’ shall be the key-stone to much of what i am interested in illuminating....
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