Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an EmotionLauren Gail Berlant Psychology Press, 2004 - 247 من الصفحات 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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INTRODUCTION COMPASSION AND WITHHOLDING | 1 |
CHAPTER COMPASSION | 15 |
MUCH OF MADNESS AND MORE OF | 29 |
CALCULATING COMPASSION | 59 |
POOR HETTY | 87 |
MOVING PICTURES | 105 |
PROVOKING GEORGE ELIOT | 145 |
COMPASSIONS COMPULSION | 159 |
SUFFERING AND THINKING | 219 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 245 |
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