Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an EmotionIn Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place in scenes that are anxious, volatile, surprising, and even contradictory. |
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Compassion | 15 |
Much of Madness and More of | 29 |
Calculating Compassion | 59 |
Poor Hetty | 87 |
Moving Pictures | 105 |
Provoking George Eliot | 145 |
Compassions Compulsion | 159 |
Suffering and Thinking | 219 |
Contributors | 245 |
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Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion Paul Gilbert, PhD,Lauren Berlant Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion Lauren Gail Berlant Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2004 |
Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion Lauren Gail Berlant Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2004 |
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Bibliografisk information
| Titel | Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion Essays from the English Institute |
| Redaktör | Lauren Berlant |
| Utgåva | nytryck |
| Utgivare | Routledge, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1135231648, 9781135231644 |
| Längd | 256 sidor |
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