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On Kindness

On Kindness

Taylor, Barbara
Phillips, Adam

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0312429746
ISBN13: 9780312429744
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 22 2010
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.50 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

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.

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