Distant Suffering Morality, Media and Politics

Name: Distant Suffering Morality, Media and Politics
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ISBN: 9780521659536

ISBN-10: 0521659531

ISBN-13: 9780521659536

Edition: 1999

Authors: Luc Boltanski, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Graham D. Burchell, Steven Seidman

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Distant Suffering examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suffering takes place? Luc Boltanski argues that spectators can actively involve themselves and others by speaking about what they have seen and how they were affected by it. Developing ideas in Adam Smith's moral theory, he examines three rhetorical 'topics' available for the expression of the spectator's response to suffering: the topics of denunciation and of sentiment and…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880




The Question of the Spectator



The politics of pity



Taking sides



The moral spectator



The Topics of Suffering



The topic of denunciation



The topic of sentiment



The critique of sentimentalism



The aesthetic topic



Heroes and the accursed



The Crisis of Pity



What reality has misfortune?



How realistic is action?