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Throughout history, compassion has stood at the base of the radical cry to change the world order and remedy injustices. It has also been a political tool for society's power-wielders, who have exploited the sense of calling compassion arouses to hide the repressive, belligerent, and manipulative nature of society's power structure. This book analyzes four models of compassion, each representing manifestations of compassion in different cultures and eras: Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, Modernism, and the author's alternative, a response to neocapitalist postmodernism-radical compassion and its imperative to take action.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Divine Compassion
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Universal Compassion
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Human Compassion
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Back Matter
About the author
KHEN LAMPERT is Lecturer at the Tel-Aviv University Department of East-Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His areas of expertise are philosophy; critical theory; East-Asian cultures; and history of ideas. For over twenty years, concurrent with his academic activities, he has worked with children in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Israel (both Jewish and Arabs), in a wide range of capacities (counsellor, co-ordinator, instructor, director). He is the author of Compassionate Education: Prolegomena for Radical Schooling (2003) and the co-author of A Voice Unheard: Insight to Children's Distress (2005) (Hebrew).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Traditions of Compassion
Book Subtitle: From Religious Duty to Social Activism
Authors: Khen Lampert
Series Title: Library of Philosophy and Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503755
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8527-9Published: 16 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54024-2Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50375-5Published: 16 December 2005
Series ISSN: 2947-0242
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0250
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 203
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Religious Studies, general