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Distant suffering : Morality, Media and Politics / Luc Boltanski ; translated by Graham Burchell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xviii, 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521659531
  • 9780521659536
  • 0521573890
  • 9780521573894
Uniform titles:
  • Souffrance à distance. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2345
LOC classification:
  • B105.S79 B6513 1999
Contents:
Part I. The Question of the Spectator: -- 1. The politics of pity -- 2. Taking sides -- 3. The moral spectator -- Part II. The Topics of Suffering: -- 4. The topic of denunciation -- 5. The topic of sentiment -- 6. The critique of sentimentalism -- 7. The aesthetic topic -- 8. Heroes and the accursed -- Part III. The Crisis of Pity: -- 9. What reality has misfortune? -- 10. How realistic is action?.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 302.2345 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A185168B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 302.2345 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A268271B

Originally published in French: Editions Métailié, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Question of the Spectator: -- 1. The politics of pity -- 2. Taking sides -- 3. The moral spectator -- Part II. The Topics of Suffering: -- 4. The topic of denunciation -- 5. The topic of sentiment -- 6. The critique of sentimentalism -- 7. The aesthetic topic -- 8. Heroes and the accursed -- Part III. The Crisis of Pity: -- 9. What reality has misfortune? -- 10. How realistic is action?.

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