Norbert Elias et l’Allemagne nazie

In one of his latter works, Stüdien über die Deutschen (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am
Main, 1989), Norbert Elias, the famous sociologist of Jewish-German origin
(b. Breslau 1897, d. Amsterdam 1990), defends the thesis that it is both possible
and necessary to understand and explain Nazism and the extermination of
Jews. Whether it is by Elias’s own theory of social exclusion, or by his modified
version of…