1st Edition
On Guilt The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture
1. The Sense of Guilt
Part 1: What Is Guilt?
2. Definitions
3. Naive Culture
4. Persecutory Guilt
5. Depressive Guilt
6. The Family Origins of Guilt
Part 2: The Cultural History of Guilt
7. England: 1350-1800
8. The Causes of Increasing Guilt
9. No Remission – the Death of God: 1800-1920
10. Depressive Guilt Culture: 1920-1980
11. A New Balance: 1980--
12. The Metaphysics of Redemption
Biography
John Carroll is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia, and Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA. His books include Land of The Golden Cities; The Existential Jesus; The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited; The Western Dreaming; Ego and Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning; and Break-Out from the Crystal Palace. Metaphysical Sociology, a book on his work, was published in 2018. For more information on John Carroll visit www.johncarrollsociologist.wordpress.com.
