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.
März 2004, ca. 256 Seiten, Essays from the English Institute, Englisch
Taylor and Francis
978-0-415-97052-5
Taylor and Francis
978-0-415-97052-5