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Compassion
The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
Series: Essays from the English Institute
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...
Published March 1st 2004 by Routledge