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Author Carroll, John, 1944- author.

Title On guilt : the force shaping character, history, and culture / John Carroll
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Morality, society and culture
Morality, society and culture.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. The sense of guilt -- PART 1: What is guilt? -- 2. Definitions -- Moral guilt and dispositional guilt -- Failure and insecurity -- The symptoms of guilt -- Guilt and shame -- Notes -- 3. Naive culture -- The Australian Aborigines -- Early medieval Europe -- Notes -- 4. Persecutory guilt -- Persecution anxiety and its defences -- Persecutory guilt in literature -- Notes -- 5. Depressive guilt -- Separation anxiety -- Depressive guilt in literature -- Kafka -- Notes
6. The family origins of guilt -- Persecutory guilt -- Depressive guilt -- Notes -- PART 2: The cultural history of guilt -- 7. England: 1350-1800 -- Superficial guilt (1350-1530) -- Rampant, uncultured guilt (1530-1600) -- Persecutory guilt (1600-1660) -- Civilized guilt (1660-1800) -- Notes -- 8. The causes of increasing guilt -- England: 1350-1600 -- Notes -- 9. No remission -- the death of God: 1800-1920 -- No remission -- only sublimation -- The inevitable death of God -- The cultural evolution: 1800-1920 -- Notes -- 10. Depressive guilt culture: 1920-1980 -- Guilt as culture-creating
1920-1950 -- 1950s -- 1960s -- Notes -- 11. A new balance: 1980- -- The companionate marriage -- The work ethic -- Liveable cities -- Universal human rights -- Residues of the depressive guilt malaise -- Notes -- 12. The metaphysics of redemption -- Puritan redemption -- Tragic redemption -- The psychological, moral, and metaphysical modes of guilt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book explores the nature of guilt, shedding light on how the modern West came increasingly to understand it as 'the most terrible sickness'. It traces the psychological origins of guilt in each person's family, and demonstrates the historical rise of guilt in parallel with civilization. It examines the modern predicament: the difficulty of finding explanations for guilt in a secular, post-church society - and the possibility of relief from its curse, while channeling it into a fulfilling life. As such it will appeal to those with interests in sociology, psychology, psychiatry, cultural studies, cultural history, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Guilt.
Guilt and culture.
Civilization -- History.
guilt.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Civilization
Guilt
Guilt and culture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019049331
ISBN 9780429263422
0429263422
9780429562945
0429562942
9780429558474
0429558473
9780429554001
0429554001