The Civilization Process

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Norbert Elias received the first “Adorno Prize,” awarded in Frankfurt in 1977, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He had known Adorno in the early 1930s, when both were young professors at Frankfurt's Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-Universität. Adorno was in the philosophy faculty, teaching Walter Benjamin's Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. Elias was Karl Mannheim's “junior partner” in sociology, and had his office in the same building as the Institut für Sozialforschung, the director of which Adorno's close friend Max Horkheimer became in 1931. Elias recalled meeting Adorno “occasionally,” but hearing “indirectly much…and he perhaps also about me” through the intellectual grapevine of the university and the city cafes.

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