Compassion (Essays from the English Institute)
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ISBN: 0415970520 / Publisher: Routledge, March 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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In <em>Compassion</em>, 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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