9780374226503
On Kindness
Adam Phillips; Barbara Taylor
ISBN 13: 9780374226503
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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Presents an argument in defense of kindness in what the author believes to be an increasingly selfish age, analyzing why kindness feels threatening to both its givers and receivers while drawing on a range of disciplines to offer insight into why so many people choose loneliness over connection.
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"ON KINDNESS is just a little over 100 pages long, but those pages are tightly packed with insights into our riven human heart....[T]he...text...is seamless and a pleasure to read, though it does demand close attention....[It] is...a rich and provocative book, revealing the complexity of a simple-seeming virtue and showing it to be far more than institutionalized benevolence, ego-gratification or sentimental indulgence."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 08/20/2009
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