Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

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Lauren Gail Berlant
Psychology Press, 2004 - 247 sivua
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.

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INTRODUCTION COMPASSION AND WITHHOLDING
1
CHAPTER COMPASSION
15
MUCH OF MADNESS AND MORE OF
29
CALCULATING COMPASSION
59
POOR HETTY
87
MOVING PICTURES
105
PROVOKING GEORGE ELIOT
145
COMPASSIONS COMPULSION
159
SUFFERING AND THINKING
219
CONTRIBUTORS
245
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Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Among her books are The Queen of America Goes to Washington City and The Anatomy of Fantasy.

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