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.
| ISBN: | 9780415970525 |
| Publication date: | 25th March 2004 |
| Author: | Lauren Berlant |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Essays from the English Institute |
| Genres: |
History Cultural studies Literary theory Literary studies: general |