Can anyone give me a reference to a little poem Elias wrote that essentially says, we must fight evil, but at the same time be aware our opponents are also caught in a figuration?
Recent news
Conference: Norbert Elias, la science politique au présent
Conference: Long-Term Processes in Human History. Central Questions and Contemporary Perspectives
CFR Seminar: Brazil under Bolsonaro: Is the concept of decivilizing offensive viable?
CfP: Red lines, red tapes: Ethical Challenges in sensitive research in social sciences and humanities
Elias’s poem
Response
It could be the one (8 lines) in ‘Los der Menschen’ (1987, S. 78):
Die sich verwüsten als gnadenlos Feindliche Brüder sind es […] denn auch Sieger sind die bezwungenen […].