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Norbert Elias in Troubled Times - Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Norbert Elias in Troubled Times - Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Florence Delmotte, Barbara Gornicka
R3,950 Discovery Miles 39 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias's sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias's most controversial concepts. Through examination of the 'current affairs', political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias's legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias's sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.

Norbert Elias in Troubled Times - Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, 1st ed.... Norbert Elias in Troubled Times - Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Florence Delmotte, Barbara Gornicka
R3,998 Discovery Miles 39 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias's sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias's most controversial concepts. Through examination of the 'current affairs', political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias's legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias's sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.

Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Barbara Gornicka Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Barbara Gornicka
R2,641 Discovery Miles 26 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Barbara Gornicka presents a sociological investigation - both historical and contemporary - into the problems surrounding naked bodies. She draws on her own participation in a nudist swimming club and goes on to study the often very complex and paradoxical emotions that have been associated with nakedness in the Western world for centuries. The book provides answers not only to why we find exposing our naked bodies shameful, but also why we find it sexual and erotic in the first place. It looks beneath taboos surrounding nakedness today and offers a theoretical explanation for their development over time. On the basis of her historical analysis, the author demonstrates that it was not until the late nineteenth or twentieth century that we began to see nudity as erotic.

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