The Germans: Power Struggles And The Development Of Habitus In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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What drives a civilised nation to the brink of barbarism? The Germans confronts this haunting question head-on, as Norbert Elias — one of the twentieth century's most incisive sociological minds — dissects the turbulent social and political forces that shaped German national character across two centuries. Drawing on his landmark concept of the civilising process, Elias chronicles how power struggles, class tensions, and the tortured development of a national habitus culminated in the catastrophic violence of the Nazi era, arguing that such outcomes are never the product of innate national character but of deeply embedded social figurations. Edited by Michael Schröter and translated with a preface by Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell, this posthumously assembled work stands as both a masterpiece of historical sociology and a profoundly personal reckoning — Elias himself fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish intellectual. His prose is precise yet sweeping, weaving micro-level psychological observation into grand historical narrative with a deftness that few scholars have matched. The Germans remains an indispensable text for anyone seeking to understand how societies unravel — and how they might, with vigilance, resist doing so again.
Author: Norbert Elias
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives a civilised nation to the brink of barbarism? The Germans confronts this haunting question head-on, as Norbert Elias — one of the twentieth century's most incisive sociological minds — dissects the turbulent social and political forces that shaped German national character across two centuries. Drawing on his landmark concept of the civilising process, Elias chronicles how power struggles, class tensions, and the tortured development of a national habitus culminated in the catastrophic violence of the Nazi era, arguing that such outcomes are never the product of innate national character but of deeply embedded social figurations. Edited by Michael Schröter and translated with a preface by Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell, this posthumously assembled work stands as both a masterpiece of historical sociology and a profoundly personal reckoning — Elias himself fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish intellectual. His prose is precise yet sweeping, weaving micro-level psychological observation into grand historical narrative with a deftness that few scholars have matched. The Germans remains an indispensable text for anyone seeking to understand how societies unravel — and how they might, with vigilance, resist doing so again.