[FRIAM] The evolution of civilization

[Jochen Fromm]

I have heard a podcast about the sociologist Nobert Elias today. He was a contemporary of Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt and tried like them to understand how civilization during the time of Nazism could make such a large step backwards. Hannah has thought all her life about it. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo95657649.htmlHe also was a proponent of path dependence and argued that nothing which has evolved over time can be understood without considering how it has become what it is. He became famous for his book "The Civilizing Process"https://www.timsquirrell.com/blog/2018/2/20/understanding-norbert-elias-the-civilizing-process-J.
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