On Kindness - Hardcover

Phillips, Adam; Taylor, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241144337 ISBN 13: 9780241144336

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 2009

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A short, beautifully-written defence of the art of kindness in a selfish age.
Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of kindness, as a species we seem to be becoming deeply and fundamentally antagonistic to each other, with motives that are generally self-seeking.
This book explains how and why this has come about, and argues that the affectionate life - a life lived in instinctive sympathetic identification with the vulnerabilities and attractions of others - is the one we should all be inclined to live.

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Adam Phillips, formerly Principle Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241144337
• ISBN 13: 9780241144336
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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