The American Civilizing ProcessJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013/04/24 - 400 ページ Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include:
Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society. |
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... Human nature' Conclusion 2 'Fellow Americans' and Outsiders Others: the Native Americans Others: the blacks Others: the Europeans Anti-Americanism: how the outsiders View the established Conclusion 3 American Manners Under Scrutiny ...
... Humanity as a Whole 'American social character': diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties The problem of the American homo clausus: the we—I balance Market fundamentalism and diminishing foresight Functional de-democratization The ...
... human beings from a sufficiently high level of abstraction, they and their societies can all look alike. If one chooses a very low level of abstraction, the differences between human groups are so numerous that any pattern is lost in a ...
Stephen Mennell. problems of human coexistence with which it was concerned; if his book was only exploratory, my own must emphatically also be regarded as little more than an exploratory stimulus to further research and discussion. I am ...
... human beings cannot biologically avoid doing, no matter what society, culture or age they live in. All societies have always had some conventions about how they should be handled — there is no zero-point, no 'state of nature' in which ...