The symbol theory

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The symbol theory

Norbert Elias ; edited by Richard Kilminster

（The collected works of Norbert Elias, v. 13）

University College Dublin Press, 2011

Rev. English ed

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"First published as a book under the title The Symbol Theory, 1991 by Sage, London"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-185) and index

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内容説明

"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 Elias' Introduction now includes previously unpublished passages written in the days before he died.

目次

  • Norbert Elias (1897-1990)
  • Note on the text
  • Introduction
  • Towards a comprehensive understanding of human beings: reconfiguring sociology, evolutionary biology and philosophy
  • Languages as learned sound patterns and symbols as the 'fifth dimension'
  • 'Symbol emancipation' as an evolutionary breakthrough
  • The high survival value of communication by learned sound-symbols
  • To speak, to think, to know: the sociogenesis and psychogenesis of reality-congruent symbols
  • Human society as a level of nature: beyond idealism and materialism
  • From 'truth' to reality congruence: beyond traditional philosophical theories of knowledge
  • Concept-formation in the 'five-dimensional' human world: beyond abstraction explanations
  • The distant past and the long future: reality-congruent knowledge and human survival
  • Appendix: Previously unpublished passages in Elias's Introduction
  • Textual variants
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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