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Author Willener, Alfred

Title The action-image of society : on cultural politicization / Alfred Willener
Published London : Tavistock Publications, [2001, 1970]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages, 4 plates) : illustrations
Series Sociology & social policy ; X
Sociology & social policy ; X
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION TO SOME CONCLUSIONS; PART I: The Movement as seen by its Participants; 1 The Student in Action: Activists' Accounts; The interview with ND; Extracts from other interviews; 2 The 'Average' Student: An Opinion Poll; The professional world of the student; Science for whom?; How is change to be conceived and produced?; The image of the new society; Creation conditioned by permanent change; PART II: The Movement as seen by some of its Observers
3 Interval or Prefiguration? A Group DiscussionThe experience of a new time; The organization of spontaneity; Knowledge, authority, and communication; The problem of decellulization; The break and its sources; Revocability; From the tabula rasa to construction; Meaning as 'experienced in' and 'given to' the movement; 4 Projects and Projections; The men-agents of projection; Projection fom the outside; The overthrow of the rhythm of life; The paradox of the organization; Sociocultural politicization; PART III: The Movement as seen by some of its Theoreticians
5 The Image of Established SocietyIntroduction; The university and science; The established counter-society; The consumption of society; Manipulation by norms; The fundamental criticism; Counter-manipulation: distortion; 6 The Non-established Society; The 'unblocking' of passivity; Invitation to the festivities; The appropriation of power; The permanent utopia; PART IV: Cultural Politicization: Precedents and Parallels; 7 The Dada Explosion; The ruins; 'Boredom sweats'; 'Plutôt la vie'; Everything is Dada; To be or to exist; 'Le n'importe quoi érigé en système'; 'Assez d'actes, des mots'
'We'll take''Discourse is counter-revolutionary'; 8 The Surrealist Exploration; Attentive receptivity; The dream; Everyday art; Primordial emotion; Derealization: a means of overthrow; The imagination seizes power; Surrealism is what will be; 9 Free Jazz; No definition: practice; From structure to action; Inevitable politicization; Extension and autonomization; 10 The Avant-garde Overtaken; La Chinoise; Living Theatre and anti-theatre; Art in life; 'The sacred, that is the enemy'; PART V: Conclusions; Methods of Overthrow, the Overthrowing of Methods; Imaginaction; Sociology of the latent
Explaining one phenomenon by anotherAction and imagination; Imagination and images of society; Cultural vitalization; APPENDICES; I Questionnaire: Images of Society; II Note on the Sample; III Documents; IV Photographic Illustrations; V A Contrasting Interview; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock
Notes Originally published in 1970; reprinted in 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Civilization, Modern
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136446856
1136446850
Other Titles Image-action de la société. English