Sociability and society : literature and the symposium

Sociability and society : literature and the symposium / K. Ludwig Pfeiffer.

"Today, churches, political parties, trade unions, and even national sports teams are no guarantee of social solidarity. At a time when these traditional institutions of social cohesion seem increasingly ill-equipped to defend against the disintegration of sociability, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer encour...

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Main Author: Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig (Karl Ludwig) (Author, Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Literature and society.
Social interaction > History.
Philosophical anthropology.
philosophical anthropology.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
Literature and society
Philosophical anthropology
Social interaction
Electronic books.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Symposion.
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptualizing the symposium
  • Power and signs of power in the Middle Ages
  • Sociability and the humanities
  • The splintering of culture : reading vs. salon
  • Proust and 19th century salons
  • The silence of power : English clubs or oligarchy vs. democracy
  • A symptomatology of critical shifts
  • Securing power and auxiliary evidence
  • The paradigm of isolation and its consequences : Joseph Conrad
  • Beyond the sympotic : aesthetic productivity and sociable bonding in the detective novel
  • Consequences and conclusion(s) : the anthropological-institutional trap and the resurrection of literature.

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