| On Kindness Contributor(s): Phillips, Adam (Author), Taylor, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312429746 ISBN-13: 9780312429744 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Social - Psychology | Interpersonal Relations - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 177.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.5" W x 7" (0.2 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness and return to the reader the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion. Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it often the last pleasure we permit ourselves? And why--despite our longing--are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end of it? Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory, this brief and essential book will return to its readers what Marcus Aurelius declared was mankind's greatest delight: the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Adam: - Adam Phillips is one of the foremost psychoanalysts practicing in the world today, and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of many books, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; and On Balance. He is also coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, of On Kindness.Taylor, Barbara: - BARBARA TAYLOR is Reader in History at the University of East London, UK, and author of Eve and the New Jerusalem (1983) and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003). She was Director of the 'Feminism and Enlightenment' research project (1998-2001). |