Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Wroclaw, Poland; died
August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a European sociologist whose work
focused on
the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He
influenced the Figurational Sociology or Process Sociology research
traditions within sociology.
Biography
Elias was born on June 22, 1897 in Wroclaw, Poland (then called Breslau) to
Hermann and Sophie Elias. His father was a businessman in the textile industry
and his mother a homemaker. He fought in the Prussian army during
World War I and then completed his Ph.D. under Richard Hönigswald at
the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau in 1924. A jew, Elias' career was delayed
when he fled Nazi Germany in 1933. After two years in Paris, he fled to
England where he remained as a refugee for most of his life. Not until 1954
did he again attain a university position at Leicester. He began an
active retirement in 1962.
Published works
- Über den Prozess der Zivilisation (1939)
- The Established and the Outsiders (1965)
- The Court Society (19??)
- What is Sociology? (19??)
- The Loneliness of the Dying (19??)
- Involvement and Detachment (19??)
- An Essay on Time (19??)
- The Civilising Process (19??)
- Quest for Excitement (19??)
- Humana Conditio (19??; subtitled "Observations on the Development of Mankind in the
- Forty Years since the Second World War"; not available in English)
- The Society of Individuals (19??)
- Los der Menschen (1987; poetry),
- Studien über den Deutschen (19??)
- The Symbol Theory (199?)
- Reflections on a Life (199?)
- Mozart: Portrait of a Genius (199?)
Sources
The Norbert Elias Foundation website
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