A Guilted Age: Apologies For The Past

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?uch as American slavery or the Holocaust?an be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post?orld War II world, Rushdy claims that we live in a ?uilted age.?A Guilted Age identifies the two major forms of apologies?olitical and historical?nd Rushdy defines the dynamics and strategies of each, showing how the evolution of one led to the other. In doing so, he reveals what apology and forgiveness do to the past events they respectively apologize for and forgive?nd what happens when they fail.

• • Author: Ashraf A. H. Rushdy
• • Publisher: Temple University Press
• • Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 244 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1439913226
• • ISBN-13: 9781439913222