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The Resource Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)

Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)

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The award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981 has seemingly assured Elias Canetti's place in literary history. But his significance as a cultural critic has not been adequately recognized. The present study redresses this situation in two ways: by mapping the counter-image of human existence, history, and society that informs Canetti's critique of the modern world and its sciences; and by opening up Canetti's hermetic oeuvre by tracing his cryptic and often concealed dialogue with major figures within the Western tradition such as Hobbes, Durkheim, and Freud and contemporaries such as Adorno, Arendt, and Elias. The authors ask how Canetti's alternative vision of man and society relates to important themes of twentieth-century social and civilizational thought even as it calls into question fundamental assumptions of the social and human sciences. In analyses of 'Auto da Fé, Crowds and Power,' and the aphorisms, the authors elucidate key aspects of Canetti's interrogation of human existence and human history across five thematic complexes: individual and social psychology, totalitarian politics, religion and politics, theories of society, and power and culture. They thus trace the movement of Canetti's thought from an apocalyptic sense of crisis to his search for cultural resources to set against the holocaust of European civilization. Johann P. Arnason teaches sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne and David Roberts is Emeritus Professor of German at Monash University, Melbourne.--
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eng
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1 online resource (vii, 166 pages)
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  • The Auto-da-Fe of civilization
  • The natural history of modernity
  • Religion, crowds, and power
  • Canetti's counter-image of society
  • The subversive sources of power
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9781571131607
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571136367/type/BOOK
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Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation
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Elias Canetti's counter-image of society
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crowds, power, transformation
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Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts
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eng
Summary
The award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981 has seemingly assured Elias Canetti's place in literary history. But his significance as a cultural critic has not been adequately recognized. The present study redresses this situation in two ways: by mapping the counter-image of human existence, history, and society that informs Canetti's critique of the modern world and its sciences; and by opening up Canetti's hermetic oeuvre by tracing his cryptic and often concealed dialogue with major figures within the Western tradition such as Hobbes, Durkheim, and Freud and contemporaries such as Adorno, Arendt, and Elias. The authors ask how Canetti's alternative vision of man and society relates to important themes of twentieth-century social and civilizational thought even as it calls into question fundamental assumptions of the social and human sciences. In analyses of 'Auto da Fé, Crowds and Power,' and the aphorisms, the authors elucidate key aspects of Canetti's interrogation of human existence and human history across five thematic complexes: individual and social psychology, totalitarian politics, religion and politics, theories of society, and power and culture. They thus trace the movement of Canetti's thought from an apocalyptic sense of crisis to his search for cultural resources to set against the holocaust of European civilization. Johann P. Arnason teaches sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne and David Roberts is Emeritus Professor of German at Monash University, Melbourne.--
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Árnason, Jóhann Pall,
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non fiction
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dictionaries
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1937-
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Roberts, David
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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  • Canetti, Elias
  • Canetti, Elias
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Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571136367/type/BOOK
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The Auto-da-Fe of civilization -- The natural history of modernity -- Religion, crowds, and power -- Canetti's counter-image of society -- The subversive sources of power
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CR9781571136367
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unknown
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1 online resource (vii, 166 pages)
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Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781571131607
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(OCoLC)1097164805
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Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571136367/type/BOOK
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
The Auto-da-Fe of civilization -- The natural history of modernity -- Religion, crowds, and power -- Canetti's counter-image of society -- The subversive sources of power
Control code
CR9781571136367
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (vii, 166 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781571131607
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1097164805

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