NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied in Breslau and Heidelberg and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. In exile after 1933, first in France and then in Britain, he wrote his magnum opus On the Process of Civilisation. His whole oeuvre is now appearing in new scholarly editions in the Collected Works in English. EDITORS Stephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Dublin, and General Editor of the Collected Works; Marc Joly is research affiliate at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin; Katie Liston teaches sociology of sport at the University of Ulster.

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• Norbert Elias, 1897-1990; The Collected Works: Note on editorial policy.; SUPPLEMENTS, TWO UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS BY ELIAS: Introduction; Elias, Freud and Levy-Bruhl; 'Freud's concept of society and beyond it', edited by Marc Joly; 'Lucien Levy-Bruhl and "the question of the logical unity of humankind'", edited by Katie Liston and Stephen Mennell; Bibliography.; CONSOLIDATED INDEX TO THE COLLECTED WORKS compiled by Stephen Mennell and Barbara Mennell.