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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... People who were previously indifferent to each other can enter now into contractual market ex- changes ( Silver 1990b ) . This kind of structural distance between individuals makes it possible to bring them together in a common public ...
... People who were previously indifferent to each other can enter now into contractual market ex- changes ( Silver 1990b ) . This kind of structural distance between individuals makes it possible to bring them together in a common public ...
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... people . In the new market society , suffering is re- created imaginatively in the minds of public spectators . The existence of " pub- lic imagination " is in itself , as Habermas ( 1962 ) has written , characteristic of market society ...
... people . In the new market society , suffering is re- created imaginatively in the minds of public spectators . The existence of " pub- lic imagination " is in itself , as Habermas ( 1962 ) has written , characteristic of market society ...
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... people believe that to alleviate the sufferings , pains , and humiliations of others is the right thing to do . COMPASSION AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF MORALS This study of compassion is therefore also an exercise in the sociology of mor- als ...
... people believe that to alleviate the sufferings , pains , and humiliations of others is the right thing to do . COMPASSION AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF MORALS This study of compassion is therefore also an exercise in the sociology of mor- als ...
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... people's suffering , the basis of compassion , was to become suspect as the basis of morality . Moral theories taking duties or fundamental rights as a guidepost for moral conduct focus almost exclusively on the individual . There has ...
... people's suffering , the basis of compassion , was to become suspect as the basis of morality . Moral theories taking duties or fundamental rights as a guidepost for moral conduct focus almost exclusively on the individual . There has ...
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... people to treat one another out of compassion and generosity " ( 235 ) . However , since Wolfe takes as his market ... people's moral responsibility , formerly limited by exclusivistic bonds of memberships in corporate groups . Public ...
... people to treat one another out of compassion and generosity " ( 235 ) . However , since Wolfe takes as his market ... people's moral responsibility , formerly limited by exclusivistic bonds of memberships in corporate groups . Public ...
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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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