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Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics

Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0521573890
ISBN13: 9780521573894
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 1999
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.46
Language: French
Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. What can we do when the suffering we see is so distant and we feel powerless compared with the forces behind the suffering? Luc Boltanski examines the ways in which, since the end of the eighteenth century, spectators have tried to respond acceptably to what they have seen, and discusses whether there remains a place for pity in modern politics.

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