Distant Suffering by Luc Boltanski
Distant Suffering, first published in 1999, examines the moral and political implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media. What are the morally acceptable responses to the sight of suffering on television, for example, when the viewer cannot act directly to affect the circumstances in which the suffering takes place? Luc Boltanski argues that spectators can actively involve themselves and others by speaking about what they have seen and how they were affected by it. Developing ideas in Adam Smith's moral theory, he examines three rhetorical 'topics' available for the expression of the spectator's response to suffering: the topics of denunciation and of sentiment and the aesthetic topic. The book concludes with a discussion of a 'crisis of pity' in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism. A possible way out of this crisis is suggested which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering.-
The Making of English National Identity
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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Colonial Fantasies
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The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
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Music and Social Movements
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Trust
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Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
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The Simulation of Surveillance
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Queer Fictions of the Past
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Avoiding Politics
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Evil and Human Agency
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The Playing Self
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Intellectuals and the Nation
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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
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Matters of Culture
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Genealogies of Citizenship
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Struggles for Subjectivity
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Difference Troubles
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Identity without Selfhood
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Nationalism and Literature
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Challenging Codes
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Nation and Commemoration
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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution
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Cultural Trauma
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Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
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Thinking through Television
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The Unfinished Revolution
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The Performative Presidency
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
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Performing Civility
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Social Performance
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The Work of Global Justice
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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
Luc Boltanski is Professor of Sociology at the L'ü¾Ž–Œ¼cole des Hautes ü¾Ž–Œ¼tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521573894 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521573890 |
| Title | Distant Suffering |
| Author | Luc Boltanski |
| Series | Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1999-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 266 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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