Un-civilizing processes? : excess and transgression in German society and culture : perspectives debating with Norbert Elias /
Un-civilizing processes? : excess and transgression in German society and culture : perspectives debating with Norbert Elias /
edited by Mary Fulbrook.
- 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations.
- German monitor, no. 66 0144-6355 ; .
- German Monitor 66. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
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Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Character and Limits of the Civilizing Process / Laughter and the Process of Civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / (Un-)Civilized Language: The Regulation of Cursing and Swearing in German through the Ages. / Civilization, Un-civilization, Transgression On Goethe's Faust / The Pre-Colonial Imagination: Race and Revolution in Literature of the Napoleonic Period / Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars / Civilization in the Dining Room: Table Manners in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks / The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self: Music Chambers in Wilhelmine Germany / Norbert Elias, the Confusions of Törlefi and the Ethics of Shamelessness / Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt / Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR / List of Illustrations / Mary Fulbrook -- Mary Fulbrook -- Sebastian Coxon -- Geraldine Horan -- Martin Swales -- Susanne Kord -- Mark Hewitson -- Ernest Schonfield -- Maiken Umbach -- Stephanie Bird -- Mererid Puw Davies -- Mary Fulbrook -- Mary Fulbrook.
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The collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes – patterns of state formation, changing social structures – and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias’s notion of the ‘civilizing process’, the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of ‘civilization’ are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions – on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence – highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.
9789004333062
10.1163/9789004333062 DOI
2007444520
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990 --Influence.
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990.
Civil society--Germany.
National characteristics, German.
Civil society.
Civilization--Philosophy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs.
National characteristics, German.
Germany--Social life and customs.
Germany.
JC337 / .U53 2007
303.370943
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: The Character and Limits of the Civilizing Process / Laughter and the Process of Civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / (Un-)Civilized Language: The Regulation of Cursing and Swearing in German through the Ages. / Civilization, Un-civilization, Transgression On Goethe's Faust / The Pre-Colonial Imagination: Race and Revolution in Literature of the Napoleonic Period / Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars / Civilization in the Dining Room: Table Manners in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks / The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self: Music Chambers in Wilhelmine Germany / Norbert Elias, the Confusions of Törlefi and the Ethics of Shamelessness / Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt / Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR / List of Illustrations / Mary Fulbrook -- Mary Fulbrook -- Sebastian Coxon -- Geraldine Horan -- Martin Swales -- Susanne Kord -- Mark Hewitson -- Ernest Schonfield -- Maiken Umbach -- Stephanie Bird -- Mererid Puw Davies -- Mary Fulbrook -- Mary Fulbrook.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes – patterns of state formation, changing social structures – and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias’s notion of the ‘civilizing process’, the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of ‘civilization’ are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions – on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence – highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.
9789004333062
10.1163/9789004333062 DOI
2007444520
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990 --Influence.
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990.
Civil society--Germany.
National characteristics, German.
Civil society.
Civilization--Philosophy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs.
National characteristics, German.
Germany--Social life and customs.
Germany.
JC337 / .U53 2007
303.370943