Civility : : A Cultural History / / Benet Davetian.
Cut off in traffic? Bumped without apology on the subway? Forced to listen to a profane conversation in a public space? In today's Western societies, many feel that there has been a noticeable and marked decrease in mutual consideration in both public and private settings. Are we less civil now...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (608 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Genealogy of Western Courtesy and Civility
- 2. From Barbarism to Courtly Manners
- 3. Secular Civility in the Renaissance
- 4. Shifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the Enlightenment
- 5. French Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French Civility
- 6. England and the Victorian Ethic
- 7. The American Experience: Democracy and Informal Civility
- Part II. The Rise of the Late-Modern American Self
- 8. Conformity, Opposition, and Identity
- Part III. The Multifaceted Anatomy of Civility
- 9. Towards a Cultural Sociology of Civility
- Part IV. Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and Interaction
- 10. A Comparative Field Study of France, America, and England
- Part V. Summing Up
- 11. Civilizing and Recivilizing Processes
- Bibliography
- Index