The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern SocietyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000 M12 20 - 144 páginas 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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... 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 the mod- ern free market and modern democracy . Those ...
... 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 the mod- ern free market and modern democracy . Those ...
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... emergence of humanitarian consciousness during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . They will focus on the attempt to reform the lives of poor children ( based on original research of mine ) but will also discuss the campaigns to ...
... emergence of humanitarian consciousness during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . They will focus on the attempt to reform the lives of poor children ( based on original research of mine ) but will also discuss the campaigns to ...
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... emergence of liberal society , focusing on its distinctive features of capitalism ( the market ) and democracy ( civic equality and citizenship ) . I will try to press beyond the purported inconsistency between the compassion of liberal ...
... emergence of liberal society , focusing on its distinctive features of capitalism ( the market ) and democracy ( civic equality and citizenship ) . I will try to press beyond the purported inconsistency between the compassion of liberal ...
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... emergence of liberal society , with its distinctive features of capitalism ( the market ) and democracy ( civic equality and citizenship ) . That humanitarianism is associ- ated with the rise of liberal society is undoubted . But we ...
... emergence of liberal society , with its distinctive features of capitalism ( the market ) and democracy ( civic equality and citizenship ) . That humanitarianism is associ- ated with the rise of liberal society is undoubted . But we ...
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... emergence and rise of public com- passion have been developed . The democratization perspective suggests that with the lessening of profoundly categorical and corporate social distinctions , com- passion becomes more extensive . A ...
... emergence and rise of public com- passion have been developed . The democratization perspective suggests that with the lessening of profoundly categorical and corporate social distinctions , com- passion becomes more extensive . A ...
Contenido
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Pain and Compassion | 25 |
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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The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society Natan Sznaider Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society Natan Sznaider Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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