A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past
Ashraf A. H. Rushdy, "A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past"
English | ISBN: 1439913218 | 2015 | 244 pages | PDF | 1069 KB
English | ISBN: 1439913218 | 2015 | 244 pages | PDF | 1069 KB
Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events?
In his timely, topical, and incisive book A Guilted Age, Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events—such as American slavery or the Holocaust—can be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post–World War II world, Rushdy claims that we live in a “guilted age.”
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