Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana by Reicher, Dieter

Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783658378486)

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Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana by Reicher, Dieter

Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

$79.99
Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana by Reicher, Dieter

Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

$79.99
Format: Paperback
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In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies.

The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences. Together they touch upon not only the well-known criticism of Eurocentrism and a developmental perspective but also what could be considered the core of Elias's work: the concept of civilisation. In a foreword, Dieter Reicher and Adrian Jitschin have endeavoured to explain and break down the relations of Elias's African experience to the rest of his work and biography. They also clarified some misleading interpretations of Elias's time in Africa. Finally, Arjan Post has uncovered the previously unknown fascinating story of Elias' encounter with Malcolm X in an epilogue.



Author: Dieter Reicher
ISBN-10: 3658378484
ISBN-13: 9783658378486
Publisher: Springer vs
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2023
Pages: 247
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.54d
By Dieter Reicher
By Dieter Reicher
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Norbert Elias was an essential sociological theorist who coined the need for a 'reality congruent' orientation of big history.

The Editors

Prof. Dr Dieter Reicher teaches sociology at the University of Graz. Together with others, he has already edited works by Norbert Elias.

Dr Adrian Jitschin works at the FernUniversit舩 in Hagen. He is Elias's biographer. In addition to multiple biographical publications on Elias, his volume on the young Elias is the standard work on the subject.

Arjan Post is an independent sociologist and teaches 'Big History' at the University of Amsterdam. He is the secretary of the Norbert Elias Foundation.

Dr Behrouz Alikhani is teaching Sociology at the University of M?ster and Pedagogy at the University of Hildesheim.

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