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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- 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.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 166 pages)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9781571131607
- Label
- Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation
- Title
- Elias Canetti's counter-image of society
- Title remainder
- crowds, power, transformation
- Statement of responsibility
- Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts
- Language
- 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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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Árnason, Jóhann Pall,
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1937-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Roberts, David
- Series statement
- Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Canetti, Elias
- Canetti, Elias
- Label
- Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)
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- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781571131607
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- computer
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- rdamedia
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- c
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- digital, PDF file(s).
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- remote
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- (OCoLC)1097164805
- Label
- Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation, Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- 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
- Isbn
- 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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