by Norbert Elias · Hachette Pluriel Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782818503454
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«Du temps» is Norbert Elias's essay on philosophy and sociology, published by Hachette Pluriel Editions in paperback (223 pages, in French).
The book asks why human beings have needed to determine time and how that determination has become part of everyday life. Elias links the measurement of time to social organisation: the clock appears as an instrument of collective coordination, and temporal consciousness as something learned and historically transmitted.
The edition is from 2014, with a translation by Michèle Hulin and an epilogue by Michael Schröter.
For readers interested in philosophy and sociology who want to explore time as a social construction, not as a simple physical magnitude.
Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
