Grovelling and other vices : the sociology of sycophancy

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Grovelling and other vices : the sociology of sycophancy

Alphons Silbermann ; translated by Ladislaus Löb

Athlone Press, 2000

  • : cloth

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Von der Kunst der Arschkriecherei

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Includes index

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内容説明

Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this work by the eminent German sociologist, Alphons Silbermann. According to Silbermann, grovelling, or arse-licking, is not a character trait but a model for action. It operates at the very centre of social mechanisms; and it is a process upon which any attempts to understand human arrangement must focus. Furthermore, from analyzing the arts of grovelling, sycophancy, duplicity and obsequiousness, we learn much about society, its ways of lies and flattery, cunning and deception, hypocrisy and baseness, false adulation, and deliberate self-degradation. The author explains the purpose of grovelling and what you can do to protect yourself from it, and the methods of taking and avoiding the groveller's role.

目次

  • Setting the mood - Knigge, "On Social Intercourse"
  • the gentleman is kindly requested to kiss satan's backside
  • virtue and vice - human, all-too-human
  • purposive ideology - neither good nor evil
  • opportunism - when to submit
  • interlude - not a question of character
  • lies, hypocrisy, flattery - the basics of deception
  • intrigue and perfidy -secret machinations
  • love - mightier than man
  • family life - the gateway to happiness
  • education, Louts and the permissive society - we only want what s best for you
  • adaptation - avoidance of conflict, voluntary and enforced
  • guilt-shedding - of perpetrators and victims.

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