From distance to detachment: Knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias’s theory of involvement and detachment

The Sociology of Norbert Elias

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 25-41

  Kilminster, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511488832.002     Document Type: Chapter

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