5094 -- OPITZ, CLAUDIA (Ed.)

Court society and the process of civilization. Norbert Elias´s œvre from the perspective of the cultural sciences
These contributions are based on an international interdisciplinary conference at the Catholic Academy Rottenburg-Stuttgart in May 2003. While Elias´s first work, the Court Society, was influential in research on court society, its influence in the cultural and social sciences has been limited. Thus, the authors want to enhance interdisciplinary co-operation and communication, shed light on the conditions under which the work emerged, and consider its position in the work of Elias.

• BLOMERT, REINHARD. Norbert Elias: Der jüdische Intellektuelle und die Liebe zur höfischen Kultur [Norbert Elias - the Jewish intellectual and the love for court culture]
• OPITZ, CLAUDIA: Quellen für und Einflüsse auf die Höfische Gesellschaft [Sources of, and factors of influence in the Höfische Gesellschaft]
• FRANKE, BIRGIT & BARBARA WELZEL: Kulturgeschichte, Hofforschung und die Kunst der burgundischen Niederlande [Cultural history, court research, and the art of the Burgundy Netherlands]
• DUINDAM, JEROEN: The keen observer versus the grand-theorist: Elias, anthropology and the Early Modern court
• HELD, JUTTA: Norbert Elias und die Kunstgeschichte [Norbert Elias and the history of art]
• ASCH, RONALD G.: Hof, Adel und Monarchie: Norbert Elias´ Höfische Gesellschaft im Lichte der neueren Forschung [The court, aristocracy, and monarchy: Norbert Elias´s Höfische Gesellschaft and new research]
• KROLL, RENATE: Zu Macht und Romantik der Frauen im Zeitalter Ludwigs XIV. Die Höfische Gesellschaft aus literatur- und genderwissenschaftlicher Perspektive [The power and romanticism of women in the age of Ludwig XIV. The Höfische Gesellschaft from the perspective of literary and gender studies]
• SCHMALE, WOLFGANG: Anmerkungen zur "Soziogenese der Revolution" [Remarks on the "socio-genesis of revolution"]
• DUNNING, ERIC: Aspects of the relationship between history and sociology: Notes on the Work of E.H. Carr, Philip Abrams and Norbert Elias
• RUPPEL, SOPHIE: Geschwisterbeziehungen im Adel und Nobert Elias´ Figurationssoziologie - ein Anwendungsversuch [Relations of brothers and sisters in aristocracy and Nobert Elias´s figurative sociology - an attempt at application]
• SCHÖRLE, ECKART: Die Verhöflichung des Lachens. Anmerkungen zu Norbert Elias´ Essay on laughter [Making laughter polite and ´courtly´: Notes on Norbert Elias´s Essay on laughter]

Keywords: Elias, N., court culture, civilization (theory), Ludwig XIV, women and court society