My intellectual career

Abstract

This book is a comprehensive biographical interview followed by biographical notes that Elias himself wrote during his life. This work, however, goes far beyond the training and exercise of the profession, it goes beyond the process that allowed him to become the great sociologist he was. In the two chapters these and other aspects of Elias' work are confronted, but on all these texts we can learn about new facets of 20th century European sociology (...). We are, therefore, faced with a biography which, as the author himself narrates, It is sociologically exemplary and closely linked to an important part of its life and the dramatic conflicts that developed in Europe and in the world during the first half of the twentieth century.