Автор: Arjan Post

Norbert Elias was an essential sociological theorist who coined the need for a ‘reality congruent’ orientation of big history. The Editors Prof. Dr Dieter Reicher teaches sociology at the University of Graz. Together with others, he has already edited works by Norbert Elias. Dr Adrian Jitschin works at the Fern Universität in Hagen. He is Elias’s biographer. In addition to multiple biographical publications on Elias, his volume on the young Elias is the standard work on the subject. Arjan Post is an independent sociologist and teaches ‘Big History’ at the University of Amsterdam. He is the secretary of the Norbert Elias Foundation. Dr Behrouz Alikhani is teaching Sociology at the University of Münster and Pedagogy at the University of Hildesheim.