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On Kindness
Adam Phillips
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Description for On Kindness
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141039336
SKU
V9780141039336
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About Adam Phillips
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 Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor ... Read more
Reviews for On Kindness
Praise for Side Effects: 'Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy . . . refreshingly lucid observations . . . Phillips is riveting . . . he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision' Telegraph 'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense . . . brilliant, baffling and ... Read more