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

• Superior document: German monitor, number 66
• TeilnehmendeR: Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: German monitor ; no. 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Errata slip inserted.

The collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘t...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Mary Fulbrook
• 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 Törlefi 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
• List of Illustrations / Mary Fulbrook.