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.
Author: Lauren Berlant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/02/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.24w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780415970525
ISBN10: 0415970520
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Psychology | Social Psychology
- Social Science | Essays
About the Author
Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Among her books are The Queen of America Goesto Washington City and The Anatomy of Fantasy.
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