La civiltà delle buone maniere. Le trasformazioni dei costumi nel mondo aristocratico occidentale

"Neveletlenség üdvözölni azt, aki éppen vizel vagy beleit üríti." (Rotterdami Erasmus: De civilitate morum puerillum) Jó tudni, hogy a nagy Erasmus foglalkozott azért fontos dolgokkal is. Ha a kötet első felét nézzük, olybá tűnik, mintha a holmi illemtani összefoglalót látnánk: hogyan változott a száza Leggi tutto

Norbert Elias,great sociolog, pure product of european culture in what it has of better. I have read one of his most famous book many years ago " La dynamique de l'Occident ". It highlighted the formation of Europe from the political organization of states. I discover this book which is a kind of mi Leggi tutto

*The Civilizing Process* is dense, discursive, Germanic, and in some ways pre-professional in its sociology (Elias has to argue at length, for example, for a discipline of historical psychology that is now well-established), but also fascinating and, in places, hilarious. The first third of the book Leggi tutto

I read this book as filling in the gaps between Bourdieu and Gregory Clark. That is, fleshing out the connection between class-stratified aesthetics and macro-social secular shifts in behavior. Bourdieu seemed to think of aesthetics as ultimately arbitrary, serving only to signal and reinforce class Leggi tutto

For Elias, people learn to obey a code of conduct, people are restrained and refined, and emotions are culturally constructed. He discusses sophistication of speech and our elaborate and refined use of language. He claims we have made it second nature to adopt a social milieu. Elias has a formula fo Leggi tutto

Un libro fundamental para entender nuestro comportamiento, pensamiento, nuestra sociedad, nuestro pasado y nuestro futuro. Norbert Elias debería ser mucho más leído y conocido porque ha creado un trabajo de investigación que nadie debería dejar pasar. Además lo hace desarrollando diferentes niveles Leggi tutto

Het Civilisatieproces: Sociogenetische en psychogenetische onderzoekingen uit 1939 (Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation: soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen) van Norbert Elias. Een meesterwerk uit de sociologie van de vorige eeuw. In dit boek probeert Elias te achterhalen waarom wij bep Leggi tutto

The methodology is extremely effective and well-outlined. Good for its subject matter and conclusions, but also its methods. This book was quite an experience to read and was very influential in my intellectual development.

Wherein one can learn that it is considered impolite in some circles to piss on the curtains.