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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783654103321

Autore

Berlant Lauren Gail <1957-2021.>

Titolo

Compassion [[electronic resource] ] : The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

9786610109456

1-280-10945-9

1-135-44374-2

1-135-44375-0

0-415-97051-2

0-203-87109-X

1-280-05280-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Essays from the English Institute Compassion

Disciplina

152.4

177/.7

808.839353

Soggetti

Compassion

Compassion in literature

Ethics

Psychology

Philosophy

Social Sciences

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; COMPASSION (AND WITHHOLDING); COMPASSION; MUCH OF MADNESS AND MORE OF SIN Compassion, for Ligeia; CALCULATING COMPASSION; POOR HETTY; MOVING PICTURES George Eliot and Melodrama; PROVOKING GEORGE ELIOT; COMPASSION'S COMPULSION; COSMETIC SURGEONS OF THE SOCIAL Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau; SUFFERING AND THINKING The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem



Sommario/riassunto

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion