Integrative levels and 'the Great Evolution
Organicist biology and the sociology of Norbert Elias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2404657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Quilley (0000-0001-7104-0323, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-419 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468795x10385179 |
| OpenAlex | W2074217341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 49 |
The achievement of Norbert Elias was to develop a paradigmatic foundation for sociology as the lynchpin in a broader human science encompassing the social and biological dimensions of human development. The extent to which he remains at the margins of a discipline profoundly suspicious of the biological sciences is perhaps an index of his originality. But this outsider status also obscures the unoriginality of his work. Elias's unifying epistemological framework centring on 'integrative levels' and 'emergent dynamics' drew heavily on a long tradition of organicist biology. Reviewing developments in twentieth-century biology, it is argued that Elias simply absorbed an organicist Zeitgeist that had become subtly paradigmatic at around the time of the elaboration, in the 1940s, of the 'modern synthesis' in genetic-evolutionary theory
Biology · Epistemology · Equifinality · Organicism · Originality · Social science · Sociology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Philosophy · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Ecology
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Entropy, the Anthroposphere and the Ecology of Civilization
Classics and classicality
General system theory
An essay on man
Ecology, ‘human nature’ and civilizing processes
Investigations
The Biosphere
Die Philosophie der Aufklärung
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
The Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms
The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection
Mappae Mundi
Emergent Evolution
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of biology
Mechanism, vitalism and organicism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century biology
From Philosophy to Sociology
The Origin of the Alps
Holism, Historicism, and Emergence
The Theory of Emergence
The Integration of Human Knowledge
Emergence or Reduction
Chance and necessity
Norbert Elias
Decivilising Processes
Elias and Cassirer, Sociology and Philosophy
Elias and the Neo-Kantians
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |