Scapegoat
Subtitle: a history of blaming other people
By: Charlie Campbell
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook; Harry N. Abrams; Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780715638743; 9781590207161
Subjects: Blame; Attribution (Social psychology); Scapegoat; Faultfinding; History
Description: Traces the history of blaming others, exposes the anger and irrationality of it, and reveals man's capacity to cast blame.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206).
Table of contents: title: The word "scapegoat"; title: The ritual scapegoat; title: The king and the scapegoat; title: The Christian scapegoat; title: Christ the scapegoat; title: The Jewish scapegoat; title: The sexual scapegoat; title: The literal scapegoat; title: The communist scapegoat; title: The financial scapegoat; title: The medical scapegoat; title: The conspiracy theory; title: Alfred Dreyfus; title: The psychology of scapegoating.