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The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor - Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time (Hardcover)
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The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor - Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time (Hardcover)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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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 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.
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