Violence and Civilization: an Introduction to the Work of Norbert Elias

Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 Acknowledgements
 1 Introduction
 2 Civilization, Habitus and Civilizing Processes
 The development of civilization as a concept
 Changes in social and individual habitus
 Socialization, aggression and shame
 3 Violence, Habitus and State Formation
 Violence monopolies and pacification
 Linearity, development and evolution
 On the concepts of violence and civilization
 4 Identity, Violence and Process Models
 Interdependence, social bonds and the we-I balance
 Established-outsider relations
 Criteria of civilizing and decivilizing processes. 5 Social Habitus and Civilizing Processes in EnglandState formation and pacification
 Public opinion and national ideals
 Sport and violence: the example of foxhunting
 6 Nationalism and Decivilizing Processes in Germany
 State formation and national identification
 Violence in the imperial establishment
 Violence in the Weimar Republic
 7 Genocide and Decivilizing Processes in Germany
 National ideals and the rise of the Nazis
 Mass murder and national we-identity
 Civilization, 'modernity' and decivilizing processes
 8 Elias on Violence, Civilization and Decivilization
 Notes
 References.