Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity – A Debate: Documents from the Conference at Bielefeld, 1984
In: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
1. Introduction -- 2. The Civilising Process: World Figuration or World System? -- 3. Discussion of Evers's Paper -- 4. The Modern World-System as a Civilisation -- 5. Discussion of Wallerstein's Paper -- 6. The Formation of States and Changes in Restraint -- 7. Discussion of Elias's Paper -- 8. The Rise of the West as a Long-Term Process -- 9. Discussion of McNeill's Paper -- 10. From Shamelessness to Guilt -- 11. Discussion of Hopkins's Paper -- 12. Civilisation, Culture and Power: Reflections on Norbert Elias's Genealogy of the West -- 13. Discussion of Arnason's Paper -- 14. The Domestication of Fire as a Civilising Process -- 15. Discussion of Goudsblom's Paper -- 16. Final Discussion.