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      • Trusted Partner
        October 2002

        Gesammelte Schriften in 19 Bänden

        Band 2: Die höfische Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Soziologie des Königtums und der höfischen Aristokratie

        by Norbert Elias, Norbert Elias Stichting, Reinhard Blomert, Heike Hammer, Johan Heilbron, Annette Treibel, Nico Wilterdink, Claudia Opitz

        Der Fürstenhof des Ancien régime war ein ganz eigenes soziales Gebilde: Am »Hofe« waren oft viele Tausende von Menschen zur Bedienung, Beratung und Gesellschaft des Königs versammelt, von dessen Willen ihr Schicksal ebenso abhing wie ihr Rang, ihr Unterhalt oder ihr Auf- und Abstieg. Eigentümliche Zwänge, eine mehr oder weniger feste Rangordnung und eine genaue Etikette verband sie untereinander.Welches war der Aufbau des sozialen Feldes, in dessen Zentrum sich die Figuration »höfische Gesellschaft« herausbilden konnte? Welche Verteilung der Machtchancen, welche gesellschaftlich gezüchteten Bedürfnisse, welche Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse bewirkten, daß sich Menschen über Generationen hinweg immer von neuem als höfische Gesellschaft zusammenfanden? Diese und weitere Fragen untersucht Elias in seiner klassischen Studie, auf deren Hintergrund sich ein erweitertes Verständnis der heutigen Gesellschaft eröffnet.

      • Trusted Partner
        November 2016

        Philosophie und Aristokratie

        Die Autonomisierung der Philosophie von den Vorsokratikern bis Platon

        by Nebelin, Katarina

      • Feuer im Elysium

        Fire in the Elysium

        by Oliver Buslau

        The crime novel on the 250th birthday of the master composer When the young palace administrator Sebastian Reiser arrives in Vienna, the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven is preparing for the premiere of his ninth symphony. The whole city is eagerly awaiting the concert in the Kärntnertortheater. But the performance is controversial. Not only among conservative music enthusiasts, but also among banned fraternities. Reiser has the chance to play in the orchestra and gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and secret politics. It is one of the most successful pieces of music of all times, still omnipresent today. Marking the peak of classical music, Beethoven's 9th Symphony was already regarded as groundbreaking during the composer's lifetime, but it was also controversial from the very beginning. In the conservative Metternich era, it was considered by many to be too radical. Beethoven's revolutionary act of incorporating a choir into a symphony met with widespread incomprehension among traditionalists. If Mozart was the greatest pop star in music history, Beethoven was its greatest rock idol - maladjusted, driven, choleric and always in search of a new musical and social order. On the occasion of the 250th birthday of the composer, who was born in Bonn and moved more than 50 times during his life, music journalist, classical expert and crime writer Oliver Buslau dedicates a novel to the brilliant and exceptional composer, that centres on the secrets of the last completed symphony. The story about a spy, who actually does not want to be a spy and tries to fathom the riddle of Beethoven's deafness, revives the premiere of the composer's most famous work against the background of political unrest in Vienna during Metternich's time. The author skilfully links the social circumstances with a dramatic criminal case, always imbued with Beethoven's masterpiece and thirst for freedom.

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