Distant Suffering - Morality, Media and Politics

List of contents

Part I. The Question of the Spectator: 1. The politics of pity; 2. Taking sides; 3. The moral spectator; Part II. The Topics of Suffering: 4. The topic of denunciation; 5. The topic of sentiment; 6. The critique of sentimentalism; 7. The aesthetic topic; 8. Heroes and the accursed; Part III. The Crisis of Pity: 9. What reality has misfortune?; 10. How realistic is action?

Summary

What is the morally acceptable response to images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television? Luc Boltanski discusses the ways in which spectators have tried to respond to what they have seen and asks if there remains a place for pity in modern politics.

Product details

• Authors: Luc Boltanski, Luc (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Science Boltanski, Luc (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Boltanski
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editor), Steven Seidman (Editor), Graham D. Burchell (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.1999
• EAN: 9780521659536
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65953-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories