Lauren Berlant (ed.)

Compassion

The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
Herausgeber: Berlant, Lauren

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780415970525
• ISBN-10: 0415970520
• Artikelnr.: 21499185

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) Lauren Berlant 1. Compassion
Marjorie Garber 2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia
Candace Vogler 3. Calculating Compassion Kathleen Woodward 4. Poor Hetty
Neil Hertz 5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama Carolyn Williams
6. Provoking George Eliot Mary Ann O'Farrell 7. Compassion's Compulsion
Lee Edelman 8. Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and
the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau Neville Hoad 9.
Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem
Deborah Nelson