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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cazenave, Noel A. (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Kindness wars [Texte imprimé] : the history and political economy of human caring / Noel A. Cazenave
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x-256 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : New critical viewpoints on society series
Lien à la collection : New critical viewpoints on society series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually
and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in
keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities.
Cazenave conceptualizes kindness as not just a benevolent feeling, a caring thought
or a generous action, but as a worldview, theory, or ideology that explains who we
are and justifies how we treat others. Here "kindness wars" refers to the millennia-old
"kindness theory" and ideological conflicts over what kind of societies humans can
and should have. The book's title denotes the two types of kindness wars it analyzes,
conflict over: (1) whether to be kind or not (i.e., the conflicts between kindness
and other societal values and ideologies), and (2) what it means to be kind (i.e.,
the wars within kindness over different ideas as to what it means to be kind and to
whom). Using a conflict theoretical perspective, The Kindness Wars examines the history
of the kindness concept; its many struggles with opposing notions of our true nature
and possibilities; and what the lessons of that history and those battles offer us
toward the development of a large, robust, and politically-engaged conceptualization
of kindness"
Indice(s) Dewey :
177.7 (23e éd.) = Amour (morale)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781032547756
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473369502
Notice n° :
FRBNF47336950
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Table des matières : Kindness wars: an introduction ; The evolution of human kindness from before history
; The political construction of kindness from Thucydides to Hobbes ; Self-interest
versus the common good: the enlightenment debates ; Industrialization, socialism,
and social darwinism in the nineteenth-century social thought ; Wars, hyper-capitalism,
and human rights in the twentieth century and beyond ; Making Black Lives Matter:
kindness battles in twenty-first century America ; The future of kindness: toward
the construction of kinder societies.
