The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern SocietyRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 129 من الصفحات The argument of this book is that it is in the nature of modernity to foster compassion. Most critics tend to think of modernity as corrosive of moral sentiments. They see clearly the way in which modernity breaks down older social bonds, but they are much less attentive to the ways in which it also builds new ones. This book offers an historically informed corrective to this common view. Sznaider demonstrates that compassion, understood as the organized campaign to lessen the suffering of strangers, is a distinctly modern form of morality. It played an important role in the rise of modern society, and it continues to play an important role today. And when waves of compassion break out into demands for political action, these demands need to be understood rather than criticized as excuses or irrelevancies. Incorporating and critiquing the work of Arendt, Foucault, and other social theorists, this book is both erudite and historically rich--sure to be both controversial and influential among those who debate modernity, morality, and social justice. |
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... ( Arendt 1963 , 65 ) Arendt's agenda is not to study the vicissitudes of compassion , but rather to demonstrate the inadequacy of compassion as a political principle and to argue that compassion and virtue are not necessarily identical ...
... ( Arendt 1963 , 65 ) Arendt's agenda is not to study the vicissitudes of compassion , but rather to demonstrate the inadequacy of compassion as a political principle and to argue that compassion and virtue are not necessarily identical ...
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... ( Arendt 1963 ) . For her , compassion is not politics . I have shown that it is . Compassion abolishes distance between people , so says Arendt ( see also Canovan 1992 and Hansen 1993 ) , but it is exactly distance that can create the ...
... ( Arendt 1963 ) . For her , compassion is not politics . I have shown that it is . Compassion abolishes distance between people , so says Arendt ( see also Canovan 1992 and Hansen 1993 ) , but it is exactly distance that can create the ...
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... Arendt , at the base of compassion is disdain for the real suffering of people . It is the cause that becomes important , the first step to totalitarianism . Compassion cannot make one free . Arendt might be right here . Compassion was ...
... Arendt , at the base of compassion is disdain for the real suffering of people . It is the cause that becomes important , the first step to totalitarianism . Compassion cannot make one free . Arendt might be right here . Compassion was ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Sociology of Public Compassion | 11 |
Pain and Compassion | 25 |
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