When the Civilising Process Loses Its Rhythm

Elias, Bourdieu and the Post-Industrial Figuration

von Donald Innes Davies

242 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when the civilising process loses its rhythm?Human beings live within relationships, institutions and inherited ways of conducting themselves. These arrangements provide continuity, recognition and meaning. They also carry histories of distinction, exclusion and unequal dependence.When the civilising process loses its rhythm, the social conditions through which people learn restraint, anticipation and mutual recognition begin to change.When the Civilising Process Loses Its Rhythm examines this disturbance through the work of Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu.Elias helps us follow civilisation as a long historical process within changing figurations of interdependence. Bourdieu shows how history becomes embodied through habitus, distinction, perception and practical conduct.The book considers the relationships between civilisation, power, social formation and recognition. It explores habitus, atmosphere, space, time, communication, involvement and detachment, asking how these dimensions shape the ways people live together.The inquiry then turns towards the post-industrial figuration, where interdependence expands while the relations sustaining it become increasingly difficult to recognise. Work becomes less durable. Institutions retain their formal structures while their lived authority changes. Communication accelerates as the interval available for interpretation contracts.With supporting perspectives from Mead, Hegel, Bateson, Hall, Tett, Payne, Scott, Linklater and others, the book asks how difference, dependence and recognition may remain generative within unsettled conditions.Its final concern is human continuance: the possibility of remaining responsive within relationships no person controls, and of sustaining a shared world whose future remains unfinished.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175803953
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published