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Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now recognized as one of the most profound sociological thinkers of the twentieth century, but he gained international recognition only towards the end of his very long life. This volume, organized chronologically, shows how Elias's thought developed over time - from a focus on the development of society in Western Europe to an even more encompassing view of human history as a whole. In so doing, it makes available for the first time selections from the whole range of his oeuvre, showing both the development and the underlying consistency of his work, from his doctoral thesis in Philosophy at Breslau in 1922 through his years in Heidelberg and Frankfurt and his magnum opus The Civilizing Process to the publication of The Germans which was published posthumously in English in 1996. （from Amazon）

諾伯特 埃利亞斯被認為是20世紀最淵博的社會學思想傢之一，但直到他漫長生命的最後階段纔得到世界的認同。本著作按年代編輯，展示瞭諾利亞斯從對西歐社會發展的關注到對整個人類曆史的宏觀視角的思想發展過程。它不僅展現瞭埃利亞斯作品的一緻性和發展過程，還收集瞭從1922年他在布雷斯勞大學的哲學博士論文到他在海德堡和法蘭剋福的主要作品如此，成為我們理解埃利亞斯的全部著作的首選材料。有關這位尊敬的德國人的思想的現代化演進的這部作品的英文版在1996年他死後齣版。