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- catalog abstract ""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 science; 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 Fe, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13260262.
- catalog contributor b13260263.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""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 science; 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 Fe, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-157) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "166 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1571131604 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,".
- catalog subject "833/.912 22".
- catalog subject "Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "PT2605.A58 Z52 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Elias Canetti's counter-image of society : crowds, power, transformation / Johann P. Arnason and David Roberts.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".