Elias Canetti and Social Theory: The Bond of Creation

Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)

Elias Canetti and Social Theory: The Bond of Creation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 January 2023
Pages
256
ISBN
9781350344419

Elias Canetti and Social Theory: The Bond of Creation

Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy)

Elias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century. He is increasingly being recognised in the social and political sciences for the seminal text, Crowds and Power (1960). While this work can sometimes be criticised for its alleged anti-historicity, anti-modernism, fixation on death, and a dark vision of humankind, Crowds and Power can, in fact, be interpreted as a study and a critique of the mono-dimensionality and the obsessiveness of power. In Canetti’s own words, it is an attempt ‘to find the weak spot of power’ and, ultimately, an invitation to recognise and explore the endless richness of human transformations.

Elias Canetti and Social Theory argues that the alleged anti-modernism of Canetti actually makes him more contemporary than many contemporary social-political thinkers. It deals with key concepts within socio-political theory including: commands, increase, resistance, and commonality. Each of these ideas is connected with real, lived social realities making this book a compelling argument for Canetti’s crucial relevance today.

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