The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

诺贝特·埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897—1990） 德裔犹太社会学家，一生致力于“人的科学”，被誉为20世纪百科全书式人物。 生于德国布雷斯劳（即今波兰弗罗茨瓦夫），早年兼修医学与哲学，后转攻社会学，前后师从阿尔弗雷德·韦伯、卡尔·曼海姆；纳粹上台后流亡海外，战后在英国、德国、荷兰等地教书；后定居荷兰阿姆斯特丹，并在此逝世。 作为享有盛誉的思想大师，其“文明化过程”理论深刻影响了后世对日常生活史、身体与情感、现代性反思等领域的研究。代表著作有《文明的进程》《宫廷社会》等 埃里克·邓宁（Eric Dunning, 1936—2019） 莱斯特大学社会学教授，主要研究领域有：身体社会学、体育社会学、历史社会学等。

卡尔•罗文斯坦 英文Karl Loewenstein，德文Karl Löwenstein。1891年11月9日生于慕尼黑，1973年7月10日卒于海德堡。德裔美籍宪法学家和政治学家。他是杰出的公法学代表，也是重要的政治学家。1910年从慕尼黑的Wilhelms文理中学毕业后，罗文斯坦在巴黎、海德堡、柏林和慕尼黑学习法律。1922年获得博士学位。第1次世界大战期间，直到1919年之前，他在巴伐利亚州的战争期间高利贷局工作。之后他做过律师并加入了德国基督教民主党。1931年通过教授资格，并在慕尼黑大学担任编外讲师。在纳粹党文化部长Hans Schemm上台后，因为非雅利安人不能讲授纳粹国家的国家学说和国家法，罗文斯坦于1933年10月11日被剥夺公职并逃亡美国。他的博士论文在1936年被列入有害的和不受欢迎的文献名单，博士学位在1941年被剥夺。1934...(展开全部)

Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and polit...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book Review called "passionately wri...(展开全部)

"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton's work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collecti...(展开全部)