Sociability and society : literature and the symposium /

"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: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023
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500 |a "Originally published in German in 2021 under the title Das Symposion. Sozialer Zusammenhalt in Geschichte und Literatur." 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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 encourages us to reflect on the cultural and literary history of social gatherings - from the ancient Athenian symposium to its successor forms throughout Western history. From medieval troubadours to Parisian salons and beyond, Pfeiffer conceptualizes the symposium as an institution of sociability with a central societal function. As such he reinforces a programmatic theoretical move in the sociology of Georg Simmel and builds on theories of social interaction and communication characterized by Max Weber, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and others. To make his argument, Pfeiffer draws on the work of a range of writers, including Dr. Samuel Johnson and Diderot, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, Dorothy Sayers, Joseph Conrad, and Stieg Larsson. Ultimately, Pfeiffer concludes that if modern societies do not find ways of reinstating elements of the Athenian symposium, especially those relating to its ritualized ease, decency and style of interaction, they will have to cope with increasing violence and decreasing social cohesion"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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