Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / Robert Wuthnow.
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TextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (364 p.)Content type: - 9780691024936
- 9781400820573
- 302/.14 361.2
- HN90.V64 W88 1991
- online - DeGruyter
- Issued also in print.
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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
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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.
Issued also in print.
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In English.
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