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Authority, State and National Character - The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700-1900 (Paperback)
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Authority, State and National Character - The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition
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This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically
innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a
sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural
studies. Drawing on the concepts and theories of Norbert Elias on
the Civilizing Process, it sets out to pin down and compare
qualities that are simultaneously instantly recognisable and highly
elusive, that is a kind of typical 'Englishness' and of
'Austrianness' that developed contemporaneously in the period up to
the First World War. The authors chart the development of political
authority structures in their varied historical manifestations, as
well as their affective sedimentation as collective habitus (
national character ), comparing England and Austria from 1700 to
1900 as a case study. Their argument is based on an analysis of
literary sources, mainly novels and plays, applying a sociology of
literature approach. Axtmann and Kuzmics argue that the very
different national characters formed in England and Austria during
this time are related to differences in the affective experience of
power and powerlessness, in short, of authority. They show that the
formation of national character is determined partly by the
different mixture of authoritative external constraints and milder
self-restraint, and partly by the affective experience of human
beings in uneven power balances. Specifically, they show how the
formation of the bureaucratic state with strong patrimonial
features in Austria, and of a self-organizing civil society with
strong bourgeois-liberal features in England resulted both in
different institutional structures of authority, and in different
modes of the affective experience of this authority. Employing
empirical detail of individual cases and texts to analyse and
illuminate broad processes, the authors reach a clearer and deeper
understanding of seemingly intangible and irrational aspects of
national identity.
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