Stephen Mennell

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Stephen Mennell (born May 1, 1944 ) is a British sociologist . He is Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin . Mennell's work is strongly influenced by Norbert Elias .

Mennell studied economics at Cambridge University (BA, 1966 and MA, 1970). He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam .

He is a member of the board of directors of the Norbert Elias Foundation (Amsterdam) and editor of the English edition of Norbert Elias' collected writings.

He has been an external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) since 2004, of the Royal Irish Academy since 2009 and of the Academia Europaea since 2011 .

Publications (selection)

  • All Manners of Food. Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present. Blackwell, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-631-13244-9 . (2nd edition. Ibid., ISBN 0-631-13244-9 ; German: The cultivation of appetite. The history of eating from the Middle Ages to today. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08509-6 ).
  • Norbert Elias. Civilization and the Human Self-Image. Blackwell, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-631-15533-3 .
  • Indigestion in the nineteenth century: Aspects of English taste an anxiety. In: Ria Jansen-Sieben, Frank Daelemans (ed.): Voeding en geneeskunde - Alimentation et médecine. Acten van het colloquium Brussel October 12, 1990. Brussels 1993 (= Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België. Extranummer 41), pp. 205–224.
  • The American Civilizing Process. Polity Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7456-3208-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Elias Foundation
  2. ^ The Collected Works of Norbert Elias
  3. ^ Members: SJ Mennell. KNAW, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Members: Stephen Mennell. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ Members: Stephen J. Mennell. Academia Europaea, accessed on May 10, 2019 (with curubiography).
personal data
SURNAME Mennell, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1944