Compassion

Compassion is not a simple sentiment, especially in the modern world. Today the term invokes ideas of individual and collective obligation to respond actively to suffering; compassion becomes a complex response involving the state, the military, economic factors, and of course ethical and moral issues. In Compassion , ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social ...

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Compassion is not a simple sentiment, especially in the modern world. Today the term invokes ideas of individual and collective obligation to respond actively to suffering; compassion becomes a complex response involving the state, the military, economic factors, and of course ethical and moral issues. In Compassion , ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place in scenes that are anxious, volatile, surprising, and even contradictory.

Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) / Lauren Berlant
1. Compassion / Marjorie Garber
2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler
3. Calculating Compassion / Kathleen Woodward
4. Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz
5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama / Carolyn Williams
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Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) / Lauren Berlant
1. Compassion / Marjorie Garber
2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler
3. Calculating Compassion / Kathleen Woodward
4. Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz
5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama / Carolyn Williams
6. Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell
7. Compassion's Compulsion / Lee Edelman
8. Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad
9. Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson
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