Distant Suffering - Morality, Media and Politics

Sommario

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?

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Luc Boltanski, Luc (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Science Boltanski, Luc (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Boltanski
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editore), Steven Seidman (Editore), Graham D. Burchell (Traduzione)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese, Francese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.10.1999
• EAN: 9780521659536
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65953-6
• Pagine: 268
• Serie: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche