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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... sense of inconsistency between these two images of liberal democracy as a moral system is due in part to sentimentalism and nostalgia ( for example , Nisbet 1961 ; Tönnies 1887 ) and in part to an image of liberal society as pervasively ...
... sense of inconsistency between these two images of liberal democracy as a moral system is due in part to sentimentalism and nostalgia ( for example , Nisbet 1961 ; Tönnies 1887 ) and in part to an image of liberal society as pervasively ...
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... sense of bounty to the poor , nor in St. Paul's sense of benevolence to all mankind : but I apply it at present , in a sense more commodious to my purpose , to signify promoting the happiness of our inferiors . ( Nelson 1949 , 162–63 ) ...
... sense of bounty to the poor , nor in St. Paul's sense of benevolence to all mankind : but I apply it at present , in a sense more commodious to my purpose , to signify promoting the happiness of our inferiors . ( Nelson 1949 , 162–63 ) ...
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... sense of superiority displayed by Americans toward newly arrived immi- grants . This strongly displayed sense of superiority is probably the reason why some of the historical literature on these societies presents interpretations that ...
... sense of superiority displayed by Americans toward newly arrived immi- grants . This strongly displayed sense of superiority is probably the reason why some of the historical literature on these societies presents interpretations that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Sociology of Public Compassion | 11 |
Pain and Compassion | 25 |
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