This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality.
This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality.
Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works, Reflexive Historical Sociology, The Genesis of Modernity, Sociology, Religion and Grace: A Quest for the Renaissance, and Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Re-birth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena, and co-author of The Dissolution of Communist Power: The Case of Hungary.
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Preface Introduction Part I. Before WWI: Waiting for the Storm 1. Empires and their Collapse: Fin-de-siècle Vienna in Context 2. Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Promises and Realities 3. Novel Origins: Rilke's Notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas Part II. Suspended in the In-Between: Franz Kafka 4. Kafka's Sources and Insights: Theatre and Other Modes of Distorted Communication 5. Kafka's Novels: In Between Theatre, Theology and Prophecy 6. The Zürau Notebooks: The Indestructible and the Way Part III. After WWI: Hypermodernity as Sacrificial Carnival 7. Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and Magic Mountain 8. Karen Blixen: Carnival and Angelic Avengers 9. Hermann Broch: Sleepwalkers 10. Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita 11. Heimito von Doderer: Demons 12. Béla Hamvas: Carnival Conclusion
Preface Introduction Part I. Before WWI: Waiting for the Storm 1. Empires and their Collapse: Fin-de-siècle Vienna in Context 2. Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Promises and Realities 3. Novel Origins: Rilke's Notebooks of Malte and Hofmannsthal's Andreas Part II. Suspended in the In-Between: Franz Kafka 4. Kafka's Sources and Insights: Theatre and Other Modes of Distorted Communication 5. Kafka's Novels: In Between Theatre, Theology and Prophecy 6. The Zürau Notebooks: The Indestructible and the Way Part III. After WWI: Hypermodernity as Sacrificial Carnival 7. Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and Magic Mountain 8. Karen Blixen: Carnival and Angelic Avengers 9. Hermann Broch: Sleepwalkers 10. Mikhail Bulgakov: Master and Margarita 11. Heimito von Doderer: Demons 12. Béla Hamvas: Carnival Conclusion
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