Norbert Elias, „societatea de curte” și „procesul civilizării”
Norbert Elias, the "Court Society" and the "Civilizing Process"

Summary/Abstract: This study recreates Norbert Elias’s career and his scientific itinerary in First World War Germany, during the Weimar Republic, until the ascension of Nazism. His career of sociologist and historian is confronted with that of Ernst H. Kantorowicz, and evidences not only the common Jewish origins of the two great historians, but also a parallelism of their intellectual destinies. Norbert Elias’s years of intellectual upbringing are analyzed and then the genesis and the late, but considerable impact of his work, which, through some ideas embodied in such very well-known phrases in the scholarly world as the court society, the civilizing process, symbolic violence, etc., has irrigated considerable territories regarding the genesis of European modernity. The study explains the causes behind the success of Elias’s theories, which have renewed the field of political history, opening it to new horizons and which, despite the critical approach, the adding of nuances and the detachment present today in their reception, continue to produce notable consequences in the knowledge of the past.

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