The role of physical and biological nature in the sociology of Norbert Elias. Between naturalism and sociologism
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2017.75.1.15.127Keywords:
Biology and Sociology, Gen-culture Coevolution, Human Nature, InterdisciplinarityAbstract
This article aims to develop the aspects of Norbert Elias’s work which deals on the physical-cosmological nature and biological nature for his understanding of society and human beings. His interest in the physical and natural sciences is found in much of his writing, especially those dedicated to the cosmological emergence of different levels of reality and those deals on discussions about human nature. That the role of nature in Elias is ambivalent and it swings between naturalism and sociologism, with points of contact and collision with both, can be concluded.
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