Un-civilizing processes? : excess and transgression in German society and culture: perspectives debating with Norbert Elias / edited by Mary Fulbrook.

Other author Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Description296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990--Influence.
Civil society--Germany.
National characteristics, German.
Civilization--Philosophy.
Germany--Social life and customs.

SeriesGerman monitor ; no. 66, 0144-6355 ;
German monitor ; no. 66. ^A686342
Contents Introduction : the character and limits of the civilizing process / Mary Fulbrook -- Laughter and the process of civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / Sebastian Coxon -- (Un-)civilized language : the regulation of cursing and swearing in German through the ages / Geraldine Horan -- Civilization, un-civilization, transgression : on Goethe's Faust / Martin Swales -- The pre-colonial imagination : race and revolution in literature of the Napoleonic period / Susanne Kord -- Violence and civilization : transgression in modern wars / Mark Hewitson -- Civilization in the dining room : table manners in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks / Ernest Schonfield -- The civilizing process and the construction of the bourgeois self : music chambers in Wilhelmine Germany / Maiken Umbach -- Norbert Elias, the confusions of Torless and the ethics of shamelessness / Stephanie Bird -- Bodily issues : the West German anti-authoritarian movement and the semiotics of dirt / Mererid Puw Davies -- Changing states, changing selves : generations in the Third Reich and the GDR / Mary Fulbrook.
General note1 errata leaf.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2007444520
ISBN9789042021518 (hd.bd.)
ISBN9042021519 (hd.bd.)

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