Compassion

by Lauren Berlant (editor)

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion

Genres: Theory, Philosophy, Politics, Research, Anthropology

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Lauren Berlant was an English Professor at the University of Chicago, where they taught since 1984. Berlant received their Ph.D. from Cornell University. They wrote and taught on issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship.

Reviews

[John Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has been on my list for a while, and I managed to find a copy on a recent trek to Powell's. It was super-interesting, although a little uneven. I really the essays by Berlant, Williams, and Nelson to be the strongest, most interesting, and most thought-provoking.

Curiously, for a book subtitled "The Culture and Politics of an Emotion," a third of the essays focused on George Eliot. Nothing against, but like, what?

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mixed bag, 2.5 stars. The introduction by Berlant is great, ditto Woodward and Garber's essays. The rest of the essays aren't as acute.

[Mills College Library]

177.7 C73733 2004