{"product_id":"norbert-elias-richard-kilminster-9780415437066","title":"Norbert Elias: Post-Philosophical Sociology","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew sociologists of the first rank have scandalized the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic 'war on all your houses'. His sociology of the 'human condition' sweeps aside the contemporary focus on 'modernity' and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and\/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all, philosophy, which is summarily abandoned, although carried forward on a higher level. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enlightening book written by a close friend and pupil of Elias, is the first book to explain the refractory, uncomfortable, side of Elias's sociological radicalism and to brace us for its implications. It is also the first in-depth analysis of Elias's last work \u003cem\u003eThe Symbol Theory \u003c\/em\u003ein the light of selected contemporary developments in archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Kilminster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415437067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415437066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 165","brand":"Richard Kilminster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136086946047,"sku":"9780415437066","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56b5a32b-f822-4ded-8d14-2adcb82ef26d.jpg?v=1770160422","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/norbert-elias-richard-kilminster-9780415437066","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}