Acts of Compassion : : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / / Robert Wuthnow.
Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUALISM
- CHAPTER ONE: An American Paradox
- CHAPTER TWO: Caring and/for Our Selves
- PART II: LANGUAGES OF COMPASSION
- CHAPTER THREE: Talking about Motives
- CHAPTER FOUR: Finding Fulfillment
- PART III: THE ROLE OF FAITH
- CHAPTER FIVE: Conviction and Community
- CHAPTER SIX: Along the Road
- PART IV: THE LIMITS OF CARING
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Bounded Love
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tarnished Image
- PART V: THE WIDER CONTEXT
- CHAPTER NINE: Envisioning a Better Society
- CHAPTER TEN: The Case for Compassion
- Notes
- Index