Drawing on Elias' thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs.
Drawing on Elias' thought on the civilising process, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor, judging the individuals of history outside the context in which they lived and demanding cosmetic rather than real changes to the world in an attempt to address past wrongs.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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