Book chapter
The Epicurean in Elias
Norbert Elias and Social Theory, pp.63-74
Palgrave Macmillan US
2013
Abstract
This chapter focuses on comparisons between some of the strands within Epicurean thinking, most notably ideas underlying the nature of human beings (secular individualism) and those of Norbert Elias, particularly his thinking on habitus and figurations informing his notion of homines aperti, or “open people.” An exploration of these threads within Epicurean thinking in relation to Elias’s sociological theory may help toward a better understanding of Elias’s intellectual debt.
Details
- Title
- The Epicurean in Elias
- Authors/Creators
- B. Evers (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- F. Dépelteau (Editor)T.S. Landinni (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Norbert Elias and Social Theory, pp.63-74
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Identifiers
- 991005542981407891
- Copyright
- François Dépelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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