Norbert Elias and Social Theory

1. Introduction
Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau

Part I. Understanding Elias

2. Main Principles of Elias’s Sociology
Tatiana Savoia Landini

3. Five Misunderstandings of Elias’s Thought
Nathalie Heinich

4. Ariel or Caliban? The Civilizing Process and Its Critiques
François Dépelteau, Enio Passiani, Ricardo Mariano

Part II. Elias and Classical Social Theory

5. The Epicurean in Elias
Barbara Evers

6. Elias, Freud, and the Human Science
Bernard Lahire

7. Contradiction and Interdependency: The Sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias
Christopher Powell

8. Past and Present in Sociological Theory: Some Similarities and Differences between Émile Durkheim and Norbert Elias
Enio Passiani

9. Norbert Elias and Émile Durkheim: Seeds of a Historical Sociology of Knowledge
Hector Vera

10. Irony as Vocation: The Fate of a Social Scientist in the Writings of Max Weber and Norbert Elias
Marta Bucholc

11. Taking Up the Torch from Max Weber: Norbert Elias and the Challenging of Classical Sociology
Markus Schroer, Jessica Wilde

12. From Elias Back to Simmel
Leopoldo Waizbort

Part III. Elias and Contemporary Social Theory

13. Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim: Contrasting Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge
Richard Kilminster

14. Under the Shadow of The Authoritarian Personality: Elias, Fromm, and Alternative Social Psychologies of Authoritarianism
Tim J. Berard

15. Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on Philosophy, Sociology, and Science
Philip Walsh

16. Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society: A Comparative Note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias
John Flint, Ryan Powell

17. Comparing Elias and Bourdieu as Relational Thinkers
François Dépelteau

18. From Figuration to Coordination: An Analysis of Social Interdependence Mechanisms
Jean-Hugues Déchaux

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology, general, Social Theory