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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... nature of compassion and its connection to social structure , we can explain many social movements today that otherwise seem accidental , unprecedented , and postmodern . The idea that the sight of suffering imposes a duty to ameliorate ...
... nature of compassion and its connection to social structure , we can explain many social movements today that otherwise seem accidental , unprecedented , and postmodern . The idea that the sight of suffering imposes a duty to ameliorate ...
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... nature . On my reading , Foucauldian theory has two main short- comings : a concept of power that seems to have neither actors nor responsible parties ; and a concept of state stretched so thin that it is in the end coextensive with the ...
... nature . On my reading , Foucauldian theory has two main short- comings : a concept of power that seems to have neither actors nor responsible parties ; and a concept of state stretched so thin that it is in the end coextensive with the ...
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... nature of compassion , and use that discussion to throw my historical argument into relief . The next chapters will deal with the emergence of humanitarian consciousness during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . They will focus ...
... nature of compassion , and use that discussion to throw my historical argument into relief . The next chapters will deal with the emergence of humanitarian consciousness during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . They will focus ...
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... nature and sentiment of compassion changed . As a " natural " moral sentiment , public compassion in- volves a revolution in sensibility . This shift in sensibilities also meant a new re- lationship to pain . Pain was considered an evil ...
... nature and sentiment of compassion changed . As a " natural " moral sentiment , public compassion in- volves a revolution in sensibility . This shift in sensibilities also meant a new re- lationship to pain . Pain was considered an evil ...
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... natural superiors , ” and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self - interest , than callous " cash payment . " It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor , of chivalrous enthusiasm , of ...
... natural superiors , ” and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self - interest , than callous " cash payment . " It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor , of chivalrous enthusiasm , 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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