Grovelling and other vices
Subtitle: the sociology of sycophancy
By: Alphons Silbermann ; translated by Ladislaus Löb.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Allegories; Symbolism in art; Toadyism; Arts and society
Description: "Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this widely acclaimed 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 attempt to understand human arrangement must focus.".

"Furthermore, from analysing 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.