Lauren (Hrsg.) Berlant

Compassion

The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Buch

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.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, surpri… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-415-97052-5
EAN: 9780415970525
Produktnummer: 9634803
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 470 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 470

Über den Autor

Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Among her books are The Queen of America Goesto Washington City and The Anatomy of Fantasy.