Norbert Elias: A Milestone in Historical Psycho-Sociology The Making of the Social Person |
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| Authors: | BRIGITTE HE NIESTROJ |
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| Institution: | BRIGITTE H.E. NIESROJ is Lecturer in psychology at the Freie Universiat Berlin. She has written on the making of western individualism, the history of the mother-child relationship, and the history of developmental psychology. She is currently working on the historical reconstruction of intimacy and reason. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The originality of Elias's perspective and the significance of the subject he has chosen in his main works The Civilizing Process and The Court Society will be evaluated and explained in the light of the history and rediscovery of his work in West Germany and of some roots of the psycho-sociological historical approach. The paper begins with an intellectual-biographical note, introduces the crucial aspects of Elias's main work, offers a critical debate and concludes with a historical-intellectual rooting of the investigation. |
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