Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Perspectives on a Long Life: Norbert Elias and the Process of Civilization -- 2 The Other Side of the Coin: Decivilizing Processes -- 3 The Integration of Classes and Sexes in the Twentieth Century: Etiquette Books and Emotion Management -- 4 Exploring Netiquette: Figurations and Reconfigurations in Cybernetic Space -- 5 Unpacking the Civilizing Process: Interdependence and Shame -- 6 On the Relationship between Literature and Sociology in the Work of Norbert Elias -- 7 The Trials of Homo Clausus: Elias, Weber, and Goethe on the Sociogenesis of the Modern Self -- 8 Civilizing Sexuality: Marie de France's Lay with Two Names -- 9 Writing in the Face of Death: Norbert Elias and Autobiographies of Cancer -- 10 The Changing Balance of Power between Men and Women: A Figurational Study of the Public and the Private Spheres in Western Societies -- 11 Symbol and Integration Process: Two Meanings of the Concept "Nation" -- 12 The Second Pillar of State Power: Figurational Explorations of the State and Money -- 13 The American Civilizing Process -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.