Jørgensen, Jon Ploug (Author)
History of the Human Sciences
Volume: 27, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 38-54
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Norbert Elias and Process Sociology -- Across Disciplines”
Language: English
The aim of this article is to discuss how the increasing social control of violence and aggression, which characterized the period from the Archaic to the Classical Age in ancient Greece, can be explained as an Eliasian civilizing process. Particularly crucial for this development is the question of how the city-state's distinctive urban-political structures were the locus of this civilizing process. Accordingly, it is argued that not only are Elias's key concepts analytically relevant to the ancient Greek civilizing process, but also that they are to be reassessed in the light of the ancient Greek city-state culture. Thus, by the advancing of the argument that the civilizing process is not a uniquely western phenomenon, which occurred in western Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century, the analytical relevance of Elias is re-evaluated and augmented.
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