On Guilt: The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367207687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

John Carroll

Opis

This book explores the nature of guilt, shedding light on how the modern West came increasingly to understand it as ‘the most terrible sickness’. Examining the psychological origins of guilt and tracing its rise alongside civilisation, it considers the modern predicament of finding explanations for guilt in a secular, post-Christian society.

Spis treści

Preface;  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;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

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.