On Kindness

Informationen zum Autor Adam Phillips, formerly Principal 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 On Giving Up , On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking , In Writing , 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. Klappentext What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken its place. Zusammenfassung What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? This title presents an analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor, Adam Taylor Phillips
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 27.11.2009
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia
• EAN: 9780141039336
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103933-6
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 17.8 x 0.7 cm
• Serie: HAMISH HAMILTON
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