Norbert Elias

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Norbert Elias


Born
in Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia, Poland
June 22, 1897

Died
August 01, 1990

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Norbert Elias was a German-Jewish sociologist who later became a British citizen, though he is often referred to as a Dutch thinker, and made his home in Amsterdam in his latter years.

Elias's theory focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He significantly shaped what is called process or figurational sociology. Due to historical circumstances, Elias had long remained a marginal author, until being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars in the 1970s, when he eventually became one of the most influential sociologists in the history of the field.

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The Civilizing Process

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The History of Manners (The...

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Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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The Court Society

3.99 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1939 — 38 editions
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The Established and the Out...

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The Society of Individuals

4.01 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1987 — 31 editions
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Time: An Essay

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Power & Civility (The Civil...

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The Germans

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“Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.”
Norbert Elias

“I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.”
Norbert Elias

“The peculiarity of innovative fantasies in the form of works of art is that they are fantasies kindled by material which is accessible to many people. In a word, they are de-privatised fantasies. That sounds simple, but the whole difficulty of artistic creation shows itself when someone tries to cross this bridge — the bridge of de-privatisation. It could also be called the bridge of sublimation.”
Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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