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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Fleming, Bruce Edward (1954-....)
Titre(s) : The civilizing process and the past we now abhor [Texte imprimé] : slavery, cat-burning and the colonialism of time / Bruce Fleming
Publication : Abingdon ; New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (vi-141 p.) ; 22 cm
Collection : Classical and contemporary social theory
Lien à la collection : Classical and contemporary social theory
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. [136]-138. Index
"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 real changes to the world
and to judge harshly the individuals with whom the past is populated, pulling down
statues or re-naming institutions. An examination of our modern colonialism of time
rather than place, which refuses to consider or accept the fact that without our past,
we wouldn't be here at all, let alone in a position to judge, The Civilizing Process
and the Past We Now Abhor will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, cultural
studies and literature with interests in contemporary questions of race, morality
and efforts to correct the wrongs of our past"
Sujet(s) : Caractère national américain -- Histoire
Civilisation -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
973 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-032-13470-3 (br.). - ISBN 1032134704
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47029940r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47029940
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Bad manners ; Woody ; Past produces present ; Slavery ; Explanations ; Rituals
; The modern age ; Democracy ; Durkheim ; Groupthink ; The polyglot West ; Changes
; People and pets ; Reparations ; Forty years in the wilderness
