Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society
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Author_Johann P. Arnason
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Civilization
Counter-Image
Crowds
Cultural Critic
Cultural Resources
Elias Canetti
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European Civilization
History
Holocaust
Human Existence
Modern World
Power
Religion
Social Psychology
Society
Totalitarian Politics
Transformation
Twentieth-Century Thought
Western Tradition
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- ISBN 9781571131607
- Weight: 402g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Pursues the unresolved question of Canetti's place as a cultural and civilizational critic.
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, andthe 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.
