The Importance of Being Civil: The Struggle for Political Decency by John A. Hall

The Importance of Being Civil: The Struggle for Political Decency by John A. Hall

Author:John A. Hall [Hall, John A.]
Language: eng
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Tags: Foreign Affairs, History, International Relations, Political Science, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9780691153261
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-05-05T03:00:00+00:00


1 The aphorism was not published, but it is cited in J. A. Hall, Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography (London: Verso, 2010), 76.

2 A. Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (New York: Basic Books, 1979). Cf. R. Sennett, “Two on the Aisle,” New York Review of Books, November 1, 1971; J. O’Neill, Sociology as a Skin Trade (London: Heinemann, 1972); C. Bryant, “Privacy, Privatisation and Self-Determination,” in Privacy, ed. J. Young (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1978); I. Craib, Existentialism and Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976); A. Dawe, “The Underworld View of Erving Goffman,” British Journal of Sociology 24 (1973).

3 Gouldner, The Coming Crisis, 386–87.

4 C.G.A. Bryant, “Privacy, Privatisation and Self-Determination,” in Privacy, ed. J. Young.

5 R. Aron, History and the Dialectics of Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970).

6 Rousseau made this argument in response to D’Alembert’s claim that Geneva needed a theater (J. J. Rousseau, Letter to D’Alembert and Other Writings on the Theater [(1758) Hanover: University Press of New England, 2004]). The significance of this text was recognized by Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974).

7 This statement is slightly inaccurate. Rousseau was well aware of the attractions of disentanglement, and is best interpreted as torn between the desire for connectedness and the longing to be solitary.

8 E. Goffman, Asylums (London: Penguin, 1968).

9 E. Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1959), 229.

10 E. Goffman, “On Face-Work,” in his Interaction Ritual (London: Allen Lane, 1967).

11 Ibid., 41.

12 Durkheim’s views are made especially clear in his 1898 essay “Individualism and the Intellectuals,” Political Studies 17 (1969). Goffman himself draws attention to the link to Durkheim in his “On the Nature of Deference and Demeanour,” in Interaction Ritual.

13 Goffman, “On the Nature of Deference and Demeanour,” 85.

14 Ibid., 90.

15 Such practices are termed “access rituals” in his Relations in Public (London: Allen Lane, 1972), 107–10.

16 Ibid., 322.

17 Goffman, “On the Characteristics of Total Institutions,” in Asylums.

18 E. Goffman, “Role Distance,” in his Encounters (London: Allen Lane, 1972). The sociologist seeking to escape social determinism is Peter Berger, Invitation to Sociology (New York: Anchor, 1963), 135–36.

19 This aspect of Goffman’s work is seen in his book dealing with spies and strategies, Strategic Interaction (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972).

20 This paradox was clearly recognized by M. Hindus, The Proustian Vision (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954), especially in the chapter “Ethics.”

21 I have in mind their pessimistic views on the self-defeating quality of love.

22 Dawe, “The Underworld View,” 251.

23 Goffman, Relations in Public, 15.

24 Ibid., 16; emphasis in original.

25 Truffaut came from a poor background, and the praise of society has real teeth in consequence, as it can be read as a critique of the wilder fantasies of May 1968.

26 Dawe, “The Underworld View,” 253.

27 E. Goffman, Frame Analysis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), 14.

28 E. Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963), 122–23.

29 R. Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany (New York: Anchor Books, 1969), 286.

30 See the brilliant opening chapters of J.



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