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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... Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault . In the 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 ...
... Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault . In the 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 ...
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... Hannah Arendt , the clear source of her idea that modernity is haunted by evil is the Holocaust . She is not alone in this ; the attempt to explain how such a horror could possibly occur in a modern society defined social theory for ...
... Hannah Arendt , the clear source of her idea that modernity is haunted by evil is the Holocaust . She is not alone in this ; the attempt to explain how such a horror could possibly occur in a modern society defined social theory for ...
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... Hannah Arendt gives a direct answer : compassion has no place in politics , and when it enters , it leads to cruelty . She believes that modernity begins with the mob of the French Revolution , and climaxes in the mobs of ...
... Hannah Arendt gives a direct answer : compassion has no place in politics , and when it enters , it leads to cruelty . She believes that modernity begins with the mob of the French Revolution , and climaxes in the mobs of ...
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... Hannah Arendt has remarked : History tells us that it is by no means a matter of course for the spectacle of misery to move men to pity ; even during the long centuries when the Christian religion of mercy determined moral standards of ...
... Hannah Arendt has remarked : History tells us that it is by no means a matter of course for the spectacle of misery to move men to pity ; even during the long centuries when the Christian religion of mercy determined moral standards of ...
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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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