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Social Sciences, Essays

Compassion

by Lauren Berlant
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Synopsis

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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Book Details

Published
March 1, 2004
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780415970525

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