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  title info:
    title: Sociability and society
    sub title: literature and the symposium
  title info:
    title: Symposion. English
  name:
    name part: Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig (Karl Ludwig)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ger
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 300 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: K. Ludwig Pfeiffer.
  note: "Originally published in German in 2021 under the title Das Symposion. Sozialer Zusammenhalt in Geschichte und Literatur."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: Social interaction
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophical anthropology
  classification: PN51 .P459 2023
  classification: 809/.93358
  identifier: 9781503630987
  identifier: 1503630986
  identifier: 9781503634848
  identifier: 1503634841
  identifier: 9781503634855
  identifier: 2022022172
  record info:
    record content source: CSt/DLC
    record creation date: 220506
    record change date: 20230414143405.4
    record identifier: in00004662679
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng