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The Philanthropic Revolution - An Alternative History of American Charity (Hardcover)
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The Philanthropic Revolution - An Alternative History of American Charity (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Conservatisms
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When we talk about voluntary giving today, we usually prefer the
word philanthropy to charity. Why has this terminological shift
taken place? What is its philosophical significance? How did
philanthropy come to acquire so much prestige-and charity come to
seem so old-fashioned? Was this change contested? Does it matter?
In The Philanthropic Revolution, Jeremy Beer argues that the
historical displacement of charity by philanthropy represents a
radical transformation of voluntary giving into a practice
primarily intended to bring about social change. The consequences
of this shift have included secularization, centralization, the
bureaucratization of personal relations, and the devaluing of
locality and place. Beer shows how the rise of "scientific charity"
and the "new philanthropy" was neither wholly unchallenged nor
entirely positive. He exposes the way modern philanthropy's roots
are entangled with fear and loathing of the poor, anti-Catholic
prejudice, militarism, messianic dreams, and the ideology of
progress. And he reveals how a rejection of traditional charity has
sometimes led philanthropy's proponents to champion objectionable
social experiments, from the involuntary separation of thousands of
children from their parents to the forced sterilizations of the
eugenics movement. Beer's alternative history discloses that
charity is uniquely associated with personalist goods that
philanthropy largely excludes. Insofar as we value those goods, he
concludes, we must look to inject the logic of charity into
voluntary giving through the practice of a modified form of giving
he calls "philanthrolocalism."
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