Noel A. Cazenave

Kindness Wars (eBook, PDF)

The History and Political Economy of Human Caring

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000954531
• Artikelnr.: 68461023

Autorenporträt

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