15 Essay II
15 Essay II
15 Essay II
norbert elias
Essays II
On Civilising Processes, State Formation
and National Identity
ISBN 978-1-906359-02-7
contents
1 Civilisation 3
2 What I mean by civilisation: reply to Hans Peter Duerr 8
3 The civilising of parents 14
4 Lespace priv: private space or private room? 41
5 The structure of development of standards of behaviour 52
6 Technisation and civilisation 57
7 Power and civilisation 93
8 Processes of state formation and nation building 105
9 Towards a theory of communities 119
10 Afterword to Meike Behrmann and Carmine Abate, Die Germanesi 155
11 Inquest on German Jewry 161
12 The charismatic ruler 164
13 Gentlemen and tarpaulins 170
14 Drake and Doughty: a paradigmatic case study 196
15 Public opinion in Britain 215
16 National peculiarities of British public opinion 230
17 Fear of death 256
18 Has hope a future? 267