Introduction

Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau

1-9

Main principles of Elias's sociology

Tatiana Savoia Landini

13-30

Five misunderstandings of Elias's thought

Nathalie Heinich

31-39

Ariel or Caliban?

the civilizing process and its critiques

François Dépelteau, Enio Passiani, Ricardo Mariano

41-59

The epicurean in Elias

Barbara Evers

63-74

Elias, Freud, and the human science

Bernard Lahire

75-89

Contradiction and interdependency

the sociologies of Karl Marx and Norbert Elias

Christopher Powell

91-107

Past and present in sociological theory

some similarities and differences between Émile Durkheim and Norbert Elias

Enio Passiani

109-125

Norbert Elias and Émile Durkheim

seeds of a historical sociology of knowledge

Hector Vera

127-141

Irony as vocation

the fate of a social scientist in the writings of Max Weber and Norbert Elias

Marta Bucholc

143-160

Taking up the torch from Max Weber

Norbert Elias and the challenging of classical sociology

Markus Schroer, Jessica Wilde

161-178

From Elias back to Simmel

Leopoldo Waizbort

179-188

Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim

contrasting perspectives on the sociology of knowledge

Richard Kilminster

191-207

Under the shadow of the authoritarian personality

Elias, Fromm, and alternative social psychologies of authoritarianism

Tim Berard

209-243

Norbert Elias and Hannah Arendt on philosophy, sociology, and science

Philip J. Walsh

245-260

Individualization and social dis/integration in contemporary society

a comparative note on Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias

John Flint, Ryan Powell

261-274

Comparing Elias and Bourdieu as relational thinkers

François Dépelteau

275-295

From figuration to coordination

an analysis of social interdependence mechanisms

Jean-Hugues Déchaux

297-314