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The Genealogy of Civilization
Author(s) -
Paul Roberta
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.387
Subject(s) - civilization , torah , history , philosophy , sociology , judaism , archaeology
Building on insights from Freud, Nietzsche, and Norbert Elias, the author addresses the question of the construction of guilt in Judeo‐Christian civilization. The author begins with a consideration of biological versus cultural reproduction, as these are figured in the Torah and in the Christian Bible, and in tha moves on to some social‐structural, historical, and psychodynamic considerations of how and why civilization manages to sustain itself.