Titlebook: Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate; Documents from the C Artur Bogner,Stephen Mennell Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if

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The Formation of States and Changes in Restraint,millennia or many centuries such as the increasing socio-political integration of humankind or the increasing demographic size of the largest self-ruling units (political collectivities or ‘states’). He cites McNeill’s thesis of a crucial change in the balance of power between states and nomadic or

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The Rise of the West as a Long-Term Process, with a methodological and epistemological reflection on the possibility of a universal or global history. He stresses an interpretative view of history as a science and the tension or opposition between any attempt at a universal or world history and the more conventional forms of history which are

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,Discussion of McNeill’s Paper,ur own intellectual history, and you have the image of a diffusion of cultural traits across a series of successive—some contemporaneous and some successive—civilisations, and you’ve talked of the permeability of civilisations, so that I have a kind of image in my mind of some kind of wiggling pheno

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From Shamelessness to Guilt,cus of Christian morality when Christianity turned from a radical sect into the state religion of the Roman empire. The ‘density of sexual guilt’ was drastically and persistently increased, sexual activity and pleasure became the object of moral preoccupation, accompanied by an ‘unprecedented intern

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,Civilisation, Culture and Power: Reflections on Norbert Elias’s Genealogy of the West,pecially Durkheim and the Durkheimian strand of social thought including M. Mauss, M. Granet and Lévi-Strauss, as well as Marx’s and Max Weber’s writings); an exploration of their treatment of the plurality of civilisations and civilising processes; a compact interpretation and critique of Elias’s t

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The Domestication of Fire as a Civilising Process,Moreover, to an even greater degree than either language or the use of tools the control of fire is not only a . but also an . human acquisition. Rudimentary forms of language and tools can also be found among primates and other animals; ‘man’, however, is the only species which has learned to handl

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Final Discussion,social science is in the middle of an intellectual storm. We have gathered here as a group of people who feel uneasy about where things have been going. I also have the sense that people are unsure of the full dimensions of the storm. And that as we get more sure of it we, ourselves, get more fright