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The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time
By Bruce Fleming
Copyright 2022
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, but is not us—and cannot be changed, the modern tendency is to demand merely cosmetic rather than... Read more
Introduction: The Problem
1. Bad Manners
2. Woody
3. Past Produces Present
4. Slavery
5. Explanations
6. Rituals
7. The Modern Age
8. Democracy
9. Durkheim
10. Groupthink
11. The Polyglot West
12. Changes
13. People and Pets
14. Reparations
15. Forty Years in the Wilderness
Biography
Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy and is the author of The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash, Sexual Ethics: Liberal vs. Conservative, and The New Tractatus: Summing Up Everything, among other works.
