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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, 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.
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This book focuses on the tensions between processes of consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly neurobiological and evolutionary terms while products are delineated in their evolutionary logic. Given both a relative opacity of processes of the mind and of the outside world, the dramatic quality of the processes, a certain closeness to ‘hysterical’ and ‘schizophrenic’ tendencies and, within the context of the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming catastrophic potential emerge.As a consequence, the book aims at a comparative cost-benefit analysis of the transitionality between ‘chaotic’ processes of consciousness and the often ‘catastrophic’ implications of their products within historical frameworks. The central thesis consists in the increasing failure in the orientation of action which cannot be contained by systems of ethics. Materials for this analysis are mainly drawn from texts normally called literary in which the tension between biographical and historical dimensions provides profiles of chaos and catastrophe.
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This book focuses on the tensions between processes of consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly neurobiological and evolutionary terms while products are delineated in their evolutionary logic. Given both a relative opacity of processes of the mind and of the outside world, the dramatic quality of the processes, a certain closeness to ‘hysterical’ and ‘schizophrenic’ tendencies and, within the context of the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming catastrophic potential emerge.As a consequence, the book aims at a comparative cost-benefit analysis of the transitionality between ‘chaotic’ processes of consciousness and the often ‘catastrophic’ implications of their products within historical frameworks. The central thesis consists in the increasing failure in the orientation of action which cannot be contained by systems of ethics. Materials for this analysis are mainly drawn from texts normally called literary in which the tension between biographical and historical dimensions provides profiles of chaos and catastrophe.
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Der Band bündelt die Erträge einer seit mehreren Jahren zwischen der Universität Siegen und der Keio-Universität Tokyo bestehenden Forschungskooperation, die sich mit dem Rahmenthema »Medienanthropologie und Medienavantgarde« befasst. Die hiermit verbundenen Fragestellungen wurden im Hinblick auf Entwicklung und Struktur deutscher und japanischer Konfigurationen von Medienumbrüchen pointiert und unter kulturkomparatistischer Perspektive vertieft. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen Theorie- und Mediengeschichte(n), das Verhältnis von Körper, Raum und Kultur sowie die Ambivalenzen der Avantgarden. Die Beiträge zeigen, dass die Steigerung der Radikalität und Relativität vor allem von Medialisierungsprozessen in die kulturkomparatistische Frage nach langfristigen Entsprechungen einmündet.
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Der Band bietet kulturvergleichende Perspektiven auf Medialisierung als Schwellenphänomen: »Medialisierung« bezeichnet Prozesse des Medien-Werdens, das heißt der mal stabilen, mal flüchtigen Konkretion in sich geschichteter, immer schon technisierter und vermittelter Dispositive der Wahrnehmung, Affektmodellierung und Kognition. Situative Aktualisierungen und Verdichtungen z.T. älterer kulturanthropologischer Dispositionen am Beispiel von Videoüberwachung, Anime oder japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur fallen ebenso in das Spektrum der Beiträge von deutschen und japanischen Forschern wie die unterschiedlichen Strategien der diskursiven Konstitution von Medialisierungsphänomenen - von Mediengeschichten über Figuren der Automation bis hin zu kulturgeschichtlichen und literarischen Perspektiven.