Norbert Elias : Expérience de l'exil et naissance d'une sociologie (Première partie). L’Allemagne, un deuil impossible

Abstract

In order to apprehend the effect of an exile, which lasted for more than half century, on the vocation of Norbert Elias (Breslau- 1897-Amsterdam 1990) and on his work, we should analyze the sharp tear caused by nazism, and the ambiguous relation between the sociologist and Germany. Afterwards, we shall have to study the themes and interpretative modalities which are partly caused by a wandering life, brutally imposed on him, and which became the hallmark of this existence