Introduction

François Dépelteau, Tatiana Savoia Landini

1-7

Therapeutic culture and self-help literature

the "positive psychology code"

Helena Béjar

9-27

Elias and literature

psychogenesis of Brazil in French books for young people

Andrea Borges Leão

29-42

The civilization of capital punishment in France

Emmanuel Taieb

43-61

Civilizing and decivilizing characteristics of the contemporary penal field

John Pratt

63-81

Jurists, police, doctors, and psychologists

discussing sexual violence in twentieth-century Brazil

Tatiana Savoia Landini

83-110

Civilizing "life itself"

Elias and Foucault

Dominique Memmi

111-123

The new style

etiquette during the exile of the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro (1808–1821)

Jurandir Malerba

125-159

Principal elements of the Ottoman state-formation process through an eliasian perspective

İrem Özgören Kιnlι

161-178

The metamorphoses of the dacha

some processual thinking

François Dépelteau

179-196

Revisiting relations between the sexes in sport on the island of Ireland

Katie Liston

197-217

Germany's special path to where?

Elias in the eurozone

Matt Clement

219-237

Norbert Elias and the enigma of time

Jiří Šubrt

239-252

Comparing Norbert Elias and Mikhail Bakhtin

the history of laughter and the civilizing process

Thomas Maxwell Shore

253-266