Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / / Robert Wuthnow
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| Autore: |
Wuthnow Robert
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| Titolo: |
Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / / Robert Wuthnow
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| Pubblicazione: | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] |
| ©1991 | |
| Edizione: | Course Book |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302/.14 |
| 361.2 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Caring |
| Helping behavior | |
| Individualism -- United States | |
| Voluntarism -- United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUALISM -- CHAPTER ONE: An American Paradox -- CHAPTER TWO: Caring and/for Our Selves -- PART II: LANGUAGES OF COMPASSION -- CHAPTER THREE: Talking about Motives -- CHAPTER FOUR: Finding Fulfillment -- PART III: THE ROLE OF FAITH -- CHAPTER FIVE: Conviction and Community -- CHAPTER SIX: Along the Road -- PART IV: THE LIMITS OF CARING -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Bounded Love -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tarnished Image -- PART V: THE WIDER CONTEXT -- CHAPTER NINE: Envisioning a Better Society -- CHAPTER TEN: The Case for Compassion -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Acts of Compassion |
| ISBN: | 1-4008-0876-6 |
| 1-282-75150-6 | |
| 9786612751509 | |
| 1-4008-2057-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782709203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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