Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Name: Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
SKU: INR-9780415970525
Price: 37.76 USD
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SKU: INR-9780415970525 Category: All Books Tags: Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Science, General, Movements, Sociology, Ingram, Essays, Psychoanalysis

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.

Editor: Berlant, Lauren

Topic: Sociology
Media: Book
ISBN: 415970520
Language: English
Pages: 256