Embracing the Other : : Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism / / Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence Blum.

All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public a...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1992]
©1992
Year of Publication:1992
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.)
Notes:Papers presented at the conference, Theoretical and social implications of rescuing people in extreme situations: another look at altruism, held in Radziejowice, Poland, in June 1989.
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