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The Symbol Theory

The Symbol Theory - The Collected Works of Norbert Elias

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Publisher's Synopsis

"The Symbol Theory, volume 13 in "The Collected Works of Norbert Elias", situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked through communication and orientation to group survival. Elias proceeds to recast the question of the ontological status of knowledge, moving beyond the old philosophical dualisms of idealism/materialism and subject/object. He readjusts the boundary between the 'social' and the 'natural' by interweaving evolutionary biology and the social sciences. "The Symbol Theory" provides nothing less than a new image of the human condition as an accidental outcome of the blind flux of an indifferent cosmos. Elias' Introduction now includes previously unpublished passages written in the days before he died.

Book information

ISBN: 9781906359102
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Imprint: UCD Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.2223
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 193
Weight: 567g
Height: 156mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 28mm