Compassion The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Name: Compassion The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
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ISBN: 9780415970525

ISBN-10: 0415970520

ISBN-13: 9780415970525

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lauren Berlant

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Compassion is not a simple sentiment, especially in the modern world. Today the term invokes ideas of individual and collective obligation to respond actively to suffering; compassion becomes a complex response involving the state, the military, economic factors, and of course ethical and moral issues. InCompassion, 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.

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding)




Compassion




Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia




Calculating Compassion




Poor Hetty




Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama




Provoking George Eliot




Compassion's Compulsion




Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of




Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem



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