The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern SocietyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 20/12/2000 - 144 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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... First and foremost comes Allan Silver . This book started as a dissertation un- der his guidance , based on his insights and fostered by his vast erudition . Had I not met him , I would not have written it . Second is my friend Michael ...
... First and foremost comes Allan Silver . This book started as a dissertation un- der his guidance , based on his insights and fostered by his vast erudition . Had I not met him , I would not have written it . Second is my friend Michael ...
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... first turning on the road toward modernity , people whose only crimes were doctrinal were routinely burned in the city squares of Europe's capitals . The movement to reform such cruelties reflected a change in the conception of human ...
... first turning on the road toward modernity , people whose only crimes were doctrinal were routinely burned in the city squares of Europe's capitals . The movement to reform such cruelties reflected a change in the conception of human ...
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... first place , their indictments of modernity are the most original . They are not mere recyclings of the Gemeinschaft / Gesellschaft distinc- tion that is to be found at the base of so much other antimodernism . But more important ...
... first place , their indictments of modernity are the most original . They are not mere recyclings of the Gemeinschaft / Gesellschaft distinc- tion that is to be found at the base of so much other antimodernism . But more important ...
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... first chapter will describe the historical and theoretical emergence of com- passion in eighteenth - century Europe . I will examine the writings of some of the leading thinkers in this respect , believed to have laid the blueprints of ...
... first chapter will describe the historical and theoretical emergence of com- passion in eighteenth - century Europe . I will examine the writings of some of the leading thinkers in this respect , believed to have laid the blueprints of ...
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... First Letter to the Corinthians ( where agape is translated as " love " ) : Love is patient and kind ; love is not jealous or boastful , it is not arrogant or rude . Love does not insist on its own way ; it is not irritable or resentful ...
... First Letter to the Corinthians ( where agape is translated as " love " ) : Love is patient and kind ; love is not jealous or boastful , it is not arrogant or rude . Love does not insist on its own way ; it is not irritable or resentful ...
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Cruelty to Children | 45 |
Democracy and Child Welfare | 61 |
The Universalization of Compassion | 83 |
Conclusion | 99 |
Bibliography | 105 |
Index | 123 |
About the Author | 129 |
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