The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society

by Natan Sznaider

Book Overview

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"