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Autore: | Wuthnow Robert |
Titolo: | Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / / Robert Wuthnow |
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: | 1-4008-0878-2 |
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.: | 9910823734703321 |
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