Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an EmotionLauren Berlant 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. |
Contents
Introduction Compassion and Withholding | |
Chapter 1 Compassion | |
Chapter 2 Much of Madness and More of Sin Compassion for Ligeia | |
Chapter 3 Calculating Compassion | |
Chapter 4 Poor Hetty | |
Chapter 5 Moving Pictures George Eliot and Melodrama | |
Chapter 6 Provoking George Eliot | |
Chapter 7 Compassions Compulsion | |
Chapter 8 Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social Darwin Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr Moreau | |
Chapter 9 Suffering and Thinking The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem | |
Contributors | |
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