Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion by Lauren Berlant

Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Essays from the English Institute

Lauren Berlant

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 so...

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