Norbert Elias: A proposed intellectual portrait for the 20th anniversary of his passing (1990-2010)

• Jordi Collet-Sabé ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Vic

     Universitat de Vic

     Vich, España

     
• Localización: Catalan Social Sciences Review, ISSN-e 2014-6035, Nº. 1, 2012, págs. 17-30
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the summer of 1990, one of the most eminent sociologists of the 20th century, the German Norbert Elias, died in Amsterdam. His profoundly interwoven life and work are a reflection of the complexity – the light and shade – of the past century. With this proposed intellectual portrait on the 20th anniversary of his death, we are attempting offer a snapshot a figure and a body of work which, because of its magnitude and originality, undoubtedly deserves to be considered among the most important in sociology. As the thread running through this portrait, we propose a combination of the physical and symbolic places, spaces and people, events and connections that marked a long life and academic career which was little known and largely unrecognised until his later years. It is a career which unquestionably constitutes one of the most outstanding and attractive legacies that the sociology of the past century has passed on to new generations of social science researchers.Key words: Norbert Elias, intellectual portrait, sociologyOriginal source: Papers. Revista de Sociologia, 96(2): 285-308 (2011)