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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... ideas in the intervening years when no one else would . My school , the Academic College of Tel Aviv - Yaffo in Israel , has been a wonderful place to work , and I am grateful that it allowed me the free- dom to develop courses built ...
... ideas in the intervening years when no one else would . My school , the Academic College of Tel Aviv - Yaffo in Israel , has been a wonderful place to work , and I am grateful that it allowed me the free- dom to develop courses built ...
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... idea that the sight of suffering imposes a duty to ameliorate it seems like it should be a very old notion but is in fact a very recent one . There is a big dis- tance between a duty that once bound saints and one that is now considered ...
... idea that the sight of suffering imposes a duty to ameliorate it seems like it should be a very old notion but is in fact a very recent one . There is a big dis- tance between a duty that once bound saints and one that is now considered ...
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... 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 thirty years afterwards , and its effects ...
... 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 thirty years afterwards , and its effects ...
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... idea that happi- ness can be achieved in this life on earth , namely humanitarianism . A nineteenth- century humanitarian reformer concisely described the sentiment : " By humani- tarianism I mean nothing more and nothing less than the ...
... idea that happi- ness can be achieved in this life on earth , namely humanitarianism . A nineteenth- century humanitarian reformer concisely described the sentiment : " By humani- tarianism I mean nothing more and nothing less than the ...
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... ideas to secular - associa- tional ones as essential ( Tönnies 1887 ; Nisbet 1966 ) . The essence of market so- ciety is rationality and calculation . In this system , everybody is isolated , and no morality is possible . Echoing these ...
... ideas to secular - associa- tional ones as essential ( Tönnies 1887 ; Nisbet 1966 ) . The essence of market so- ciety is rationality and calculation . In this system , everybody is isolated , and no morality is possible . Echoing these ...
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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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