The Politics of Compassion and Transformation: And Transformation - Hardcover

Simpson, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804009031 ISBN 13: 9780804009034

Publisher: Swallow Press, 1988

Synopsis

In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of “progress,” we might expect to look with confidence to the “scientific” disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization. We might also look to the older disciplines of religion and ethics to determine our values and to tell us what we ought to do. But the sad truth is that the dominant paradigms, methods, and conclusions of the social sciences and humanities are inadequate to this task. We need a new “politics of compassion and transformation.”

About this title

About the Author:

Dick Simpson is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-editor with Dennis Judd of "The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York."

Betty O'Shaughnessy is a visiting lecturer in political science, University of Illinois at Chicago and coauthor of "The Struggle for Power and Influence in Cities and States".

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0804009031
• ISBN 13: 9780804009034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308