The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0847695557
ISBN13:9780847695553
Release Date:December 2000
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.73 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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