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This text contains initial reflections on the subject of the academic biography of Norbert Elias from the perspective of the theory of ritual interactions. The author outlines the spatial-temporal conditions that produced the emotional energy in Elias’s works and to a large degree determined his great popularity in the second half of the 20th century and now.