Manfred Stanley

Manfred Stanley (né Manfred Intrator; November 19 , 1932 – September 7, 2004) was a German-born American sociologist. One of his sons is the philosopher Jason Stanley. Quotes Compassion is more concrete and a more reasonable expectation to have of people. Mutual estrangement, and stereotypical fantasy exist between the extremes of our class structure, between several ethnic and racial groups and between considerable numbers of males and females. This presents a major challenge for civic education, but it is not one of inducing some unrealistic and sentimental attitude of "unity." "The Mystery of the Commons: On the Indispensability of Civic Rhetoric", Social Research, vol. 50, no. 4 (1983) pp. 872-3 About My father's vision of civic compassion was premised on rejecting the language of unity, as too "contaminated by propagandistic usage." If anything, his solution was the opposite—to engage respectfully, to imaginatively stand in the places of others, to inhabit worlds that initially seem strange and even threatening, to acknowledge one's inability to be as wise, as generous, or as open as pluralistic democracy requires. To resist the slide into cruelty is perhaps the most important educational goal of a people. Jason Stanley, Erasing History (2024) ch. 7 External links Manfred Stanley on German Wikipedia Category:1932 births Category:2004 deaths Category:Sociologists from the United States Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:People from Berlin