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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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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This review is from: Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute) (Paperback)
Berlant brings togther a variety of writers whose work explores the history, political nature of and human need for compassion. Woodward's essay is especially powerful and thought-provoking, and I recommend this book for the reader who wants to gain academic, political and theoretical insights into the nature of an emotion that has often been used and abused.
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"Either out of humility or out of self-respect (one or the other) the Court should decline to answer this incredibly difficult and incredibly silly question," Justice Antonin Scalia responded to the issues posed by PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin, a case of a professional golfer's fight for permission to ride in a golf cart while competing on the PGA tour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Hannah Arendt, House of Pain, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Adam Bede, United States, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Felix Holt, Oxford University Press, Saint Martin, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lauren Berlant, Mount Rushmore, Neil Hertz, North American, Paul de Man, George Bush, Sigmund Freud, Bill Clinton, Harvard University Press, Jacques-Alain Miller, Justice Scalia, Supreme Court New!
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"Either out of humility or out of self-respect (one or the other) the Court should decline to answer this incredibly difficult and incredibly silly question," Justice Antonin Scalia responded to the issues posed by PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin, a case of a professional golfer's fight for permission to ride in a golf cart while competing on the PGA tour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
melodramatic tableau, imperialist allegory, benevolent compassion, liberal narrative, compassionate conservatism, primal horde, novelistic realism, free indirect discourse, sentimental narrative, psychic projection, social suffering, compassionate conservative Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Hannah Arendt, House of Pain, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Adam Bede, United States, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Felix Holt, Oxford University Press, Saint Martin, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lauren Berlant, Mount Rushmore, Neil Hertz, North American, Paul de Man, George Bush, Sigmund Freud, Bill Clinton, Harvard University Press, Jacques-Alain Miller, Justice Scalia, Supreme Court New!
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- Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot on 15 pages
- Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot on 13 pages
- Eichmann in Jerusalem (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt on 12 pages
- Felix Holt, the Radical (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot on 11 pages
- The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot on 6 pages
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