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Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute)

By Lauren Berlant

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
ISBN
0415970512, 9780415970518
Open Library ID
OL17119511M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3347553 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
253\253
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In 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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