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Conspicuous compassion : why sometimes it really is cruel to be kind / Patrick West.

By:

West, Patrick, 1974- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Institute for the Study of Civil Society

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Civitas, Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2004Description: viii, 79 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1903386349
9781903386347

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

152.4 22

Contents:

Foreword / Kenneth Minogue -- 1. Conspicuous compassion -- 2. Mourning sickness -- 3. Nonce-sense -- 4. Silence of the critics -- 5. Lapel louts -- 6. Animal wrongs -- 7. Any spare change? -- 8. Not in my name -- 9. You've got junk mail -- 10. Drop the slogans -- 11. Relief from celebrities -- 12. The easiest word -- 13. Towards a less 'caring' society -- Postscript : the case of the Rev. John Smallwood.

Review: "Our culture of ostentatious caring is about projecting your ego, and informing others what a deeply caring individual you are. It is about feeling good, not doing good, and illustrates not how altruistic we have become, but how selfish. And, as Patrick West shows in this monograph, sometimes it can be cruel to care."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	152.4 WES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A396643B

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"Our culture of ostentatious caring is about projecting your ego, and informing others what a deeply caring individual you are. It is about feeling good, not doing good, and illustrates not how altruistic we have become, but how selfish. And, as Patrick West shows in this monograph, sometimes it can be cruel to care."--BOOK JACKET.

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