Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

by Berlant, Lauren
ISBN: 9780415970525
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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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Berlant, Lauren
  • ISBN: 9780415970525
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.56 x 0.65
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2004
Language: English