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Preface=1
PART 1. MODERNITY AND ELIAS=1
1. The sound of canon-fire=1
Modernity and Elia's=1
America and Europe=3
The Organization of this Book=4
Elias, Foucault, Arendt, Parsons, Bauman=4
Artists and Surveyors=6
Visions of Modernity=6
Scenes from the Life of a Sociologist=8
A Survivor's Vision=11
The Canonization of Elias=13
Releasing Elias into the Wild=14
Maps of Modernity=15
Sociology and Philosophy=16
2. Culture and civilization=20
A Science for Survival=20
Interconnectedness and Separation=21
The Civilizing Process=21
The Court Society=25
Seeing, Believing and Knowing=25
Elias versus Kant=27
Life, Vision, Sociology=28
A Secure World (1897-1914)=28
The World Turned Upside Down (1914-40)=31
Rebirth of a Sociologist (1940-65)=37
The Late Flowering (1965-90)=39
Conclusion=40
Appendix: The Society of Individuals=41
PART 2. THE WIDER DEBATE=43
3. Arendt and Elias=43
Modernity: for Better or Worse?=43
Going beyond Particularities=44
Natality and Civility=45
Outsiders and Pariahs=47
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?=52
The Germans=54
The Origins of Totalitarianism=56
Making Sense of Genocide=59
A Typology of Decivilizing Processes=62
Conclusion=65
4. Parsons and Elias=71
Biographical Parallels=71
High Noon at Varna=71
Elias's Case against Parsons=73
The Knowledge/Understanding Model=75
Similarities and Differences=76
The Structure of Social Action and The Civilizing Process=78
Order and Freedom=80
Positivism and Idealism=80
The Dynamics of Intellectual Development=83
Parsons and Foucault=85
Parsons and Germany=87
5. Foucault and Elias=93
The Great Escape=93
In the Hothouse=94
Three Strategies of Resistance=96
The Maelstrom and the Panopticon=97
Nietzsche, Husserl and Bachelard=98
Some Similarities=101
Husbands and Wives=103
Sex and Civilization=106
The Self as a Problem=109
Conclusion=110
6. Bauman and Elias=114
Postmodernity: for Better or Worse?=114
Hope and Disappointment=115
The Journey to Postmodernity=117
Exceptions and Prototypes=119
The Civilizing Process as a View from the Late 1930s=120
The Loss of Empire and Decivilizing Processes=122
Decivilizing Processes and Postmodernity in Europe=126
Men of their Times=129
PART 3. TOWARDS GLOBAL MODERNITY=134
7. Europe=134
Americans in Paris=134
Marshall Aid=136
Life at Court=139
Rule-bound Interdependence=140
Elias, Parsons, Arendt and Europe=144
8. Shame and humiliation=148
Introduction=148
Civilization, Christianity and Shame=149
Adam, Eve and God=151
Transgression, Correction and Destruction=154
Abasement, Humbling and Humiliation=156
Humiliation in Elias's writings=159
The Civilized Habitus and the Humiliated Habitus=161
9. A civilized debate=167
Convergence and Conflict=167
The Self=168
Figuration and Process=169
Some other Findings=172
The Blurred Map of Global Modernity=174
Elias and Wirth=176
Bibliography 181
Index=192