From philosophy to process sociology

This paper traces the early influences that shaped Norbert Elias’s thought during his formative years in Breslau. Norbert Elias, a major figure of twentieth-century European sociology, built a unique research tradition known today as process sociology after rejecting philosophy at the beginning of h...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerző: Walsh Máté Gergely
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2019
Sorozat:Belvedere Meridionale 31 No. 4
Kulcsszavak:Filozófia, Szociológia
doi:10.14232/belv.2019.4.7

Online Access:http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/68554
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Tartalmi kivonat:This paper traces the early influences that shaped Norbert Elias’s thought during his formative years in Breslau. Norbert Elias, a major figure of twentieth-century European sociology, built a unique research tradition known today as process sociology after rejecting philosophy at the beginning of his career and polemicized with the dominant social scientific schools of his time throughout his long life. This paper, examining Elias’s less known early writings and particularly his doctoral thesis in philosophy disputed by his supervisor, Richard Hönigswald, argues that to better understand, value and utilize Norbert Elias’s unique processual approach to sociology one must better understand the relationship between the neo-Kantian movement, a today neglected, but once a highly influential continental philosophical movement of the second half of the long nineteenth century, and the thinking of Elias’s rebel generation in interwar Germany. This paper also intends to search for a common ground between the philosophical and the sociological traditions.
Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők:72-83
ISSN:2064-5929