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The Loneliness of the Dying & Humana Conditio: Observations on the Development of Humanity on the Fortieth Anniversar (Collected Works Norbert Elias)
The Loneliness of the Dying Humana Conditio Observations on the Development of Humanity on the Fortieth Anniversar - Collected Works Norbert Elias Author:Norbert Elias In ""Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius"", Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of ""genius"" or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character - the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his hu... more »mor - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic straddling of two social worlds. The volume also includes two major essays on cognate topics, previously unpublished in English: on the courtly painter Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera, and on ""The fate of German Baroque poetry: between the traditions of court and middle class"".« less