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.
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.
Noel A. Cazenave is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. In addition to his other books, numerous journal articles, book chapters, and various other publications, Professor Cazenave coauthored Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor, which won five book awards, and has most recently published Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Kindness Wars: An Introduction Chapter 2 The Evolution of Human Kindness from Before History Chapter 3 The Political Construction of Kindness from Thucydides to Hobbes Chapter 4 Self-Interest Versus the Common Good: The Enlightenment Debates Chapter 5 Industrialization, Socialism, and Social Darwinism in the Nineteenth-Century Social Thought Chapter 6 Wars, Hyper-Capitalism, and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Chapter 7 Making Black Lives Matter: Kindness Battles in Twenty-First Century America Chapter 8 The Future Of Kindness: Toward the Construction of Kinder Societies Index About the Author
Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Kindness Wars: An Introduction Chapter 2 The Evolution of Human Kindness from Before History Chapter 3 The Political Construction of Kindness from Thucydides to Hobbes Chapter 4 Self-Interest Versus the Common Good: The Enlightenment Debates Chapter 5 Industrialization, Socialism, and Social Darwinism in the Nineteenth-Century Social Thought Chapter 6 Wars, Hyper-Capitalism, and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Chapter 7 Making Black Lives Matter: Kindness Battles in Twenty-First Century America Chapter 8 The Future Of Kindness: Toward the Construction of Kinder Societies Index About the Author
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