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History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 2, 73-91 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695106065129

Elias and the counter-ego: personal recollections

Stephen Mennell

School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 716 8504. Fax: +353 1 716 1125Stephen.Mennell{at}ucd.ie

Norbert Elias (1897–1990) achieved international recognition as a major sociologist only towards the end of his long life. As a German Jewish refugee in England, he did not even gain a secure academic post (at the University of Leicester) until he was 57. Apart from his magnum opus, Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process], which was published obscurely in 1939, all his other books and most of his essays were published after his formal retirement. These personal recollections date from that last highly productive part of his life, when he gradually attracted an extensive international following. They depict his foibles, some endearing, some that seemed perversely to stand in the way of his growing reputation.

Key Words: Norbert Elias • figurational sociology • Germany and the Netherlands • sociology in Britain


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