The logic of compassion

Trans/Form/Ação 21 (1):91-117 (1999)
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Abstract

Taking the works of Nietzsche, Arendt and Foucault as starting point, we analyze the endogenous logic to the notion of pitiful compassion which instrumentalists a peculiar form of power captured by the duality serve-obey. From the perspective of this authors, we provide examples that history presented to illustrate the deployment of "cruel compassion".Tomando como ponto de partida os trabalhos de Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault, este escrito pretende problematizar a lógica interna da compaixão piedosa, pois, como tentaremos mostrar, ela parece instaurar uma modalidade peculiar de exercício de poder que se estrutura a partir do binômio servir-obedecer. A partir desses autores, pretendemos ler alguns exemplos que a história da humanidade nos apresenta para ilustrar o exercício dessa "cruel compaixão"

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