Abstract

SARAT, MAGDA  and  SUTTANA, RENATO. NORBERT ELIAS AND MOZART AS OUTSIDERS: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES AND SOCIAL FIGURATION. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.3, pp.213-236. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v24n3p213-236.

Inspired by Norbert Elias’ theories, the human sciences have advanced in different research contexts, with important developments. This article is a review of a research we have developed on themes such as memory, childhood and literature, based on an Elisinian theoretical background. Specifically, we turn to the contributions of this German thinker to address such themes as Education and training of individuals from childhood. Based on sources as the works of Elias and some biographical texts of commentators, we try to search for elements that can help us to understand this brilliant sociologist as an individual and as a person who nevertheless was considered an outsider throughout his human and intellectual development. Starting from the book Mozart: sociology of a genius, in which Elias — writing about the Austrian musician — reveals traces of his own personality, we carry on an analysis focused on his trajectory, specially emphasizing his childhood memories, to which Elias resorted in order to express his perceptions about the outsiders — one of the fundamental themes of his postulations. We also study how the concept of the outsider, modernly, indicates the social place of the individual in different groups in the civilizing process. This experience marks the collective and individual trajectories of all human beings.

Keywords : NORBERT ELIAS; MEMORY; CHILDHOOD; ESTABLISHED AND OUTSIDERS.

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