On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge
Selected Writings

Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Mennell and Johan Goudsblom
312 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1998
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: Civilization
1: The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint
2: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties
3: The Development of the Concept of Civilite
4: The Changing Functions of Etiquette
5: Mozart: The Artist in the Human Being
6: The Loneliness of the Dying
II: Power
7: Game Models
8: On the Monopoly Mechanism
9: The Decay of the State Monopoly of Violence in the Weimar Republic
10: The Genesis of Sport in Antiquity
11: The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in Ancient Rome
III: Knowledge
12: Involvement and Detachment
13: Observations on Gossip
14: Time and Timing
15: Homo Clausus: The Thinking Statues
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
I: Civilization
1: The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint
2: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties
3: The Development of the Concept of Civilite
4: The Changing Functions of Etiquette
5: Mozart: The Artist in the Human Being
6: The Loneliness of the Dying
II: Power
7: Game Models
8: On the Monopoly Mechanism
9: The Decay of the State Monopoly of Violence in the Weimar Republic
10: The Genesis of Sport in Antiquity
11: The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in Ancient Rome
III: Knowledge
12: Involvement and Detachment
13: Observations on Gossip
14: Time and Timing
15: Homo Clausus: The Thinking Statues
Bibliography
Index
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