The Symbol Theory (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

"The Symbol Theory, volume 13 in "The Collected Works of Norbert Elias", situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. Elias proceeds to recast the question of the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond the old philosophical dualisms of idealism/materialism and subject/object. He readjusts the boundary between the 'social' and the 'natural' by interweaving evolutionary biology and the social sciences. "The Symbol Theory" provides nothing less than a new image of the human condition as an accidental outcome of the blind flux of an indifferent cosmos. Elias' Introduction now includes previously unpublished passages written in the days before he died.

General

Imprint:	University College Dublin Press
Country of origin:	Ireland
Series:	Collected Works of Norbert Elias, v. 13
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	February 2012
Authors:	Norbert Elias
Editors:	Richard Kilminster
Dimensions:	156 x 234 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-906359-10-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-906359-10-5
Barcode:	9781906359102

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