Contents

An Essay on the Thinking of Civilizational Processes

Part I: Reading Elias
1. For New Models of Thinking
2. A Balance Between Engaged and Distant Attitudes: A Conversation with Norbert Elias
3. Life by the Clock
4. Insiders and Outsiders: On the Relationship Between Knowledge Advances and Changes in Attitude

Part II: On the Interconnection of Strangeness and Civilization
5. International Migration as a Civilizational Process
6. A Translator
7. Strangers and Civilization: From Disciplinary to Reflexive Civilizing of the Knowledge Process
8. Excursus on Theories of Strangeness
9. One's Own and the Other's Sociology: A Civilizational Theoretical Attempt on the Socio- and Psychogenesis of German Spatial Planning and Research

Part III: Civilizing and Decivilizing Knowledge
10. Exodus: On the Development of Some Aspects of Modern Human Migrations and Their Scientific Perception
11. Memory as Second Nature? A German Debate and the Utopia of a "Third Nature"
12. Thinking Against the Closed Personality: Norbert Elias, Group Analysis, and the Unconscious in a Research Group
13. Formation of Synthesis as a Vital Function: On the Sociological Theory of Civilization by Peter R. Gleichmann
14. Separating or Integrating Civilization of Conflicts? A Process Model on Multiple Levels
15. Between Unconscious Splitting and Reflexive Synthesis: Problems of Civilizing Scientific Knowledge.