Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
ISBN-10
1135231656
ISBN-13
9781135231651
Series
Compassion
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2014-03-14
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Lauren Berlant

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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