On Kindness
Book by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
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The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of Western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to... Google Books
Originally published: 2009
Authors: Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips
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A concise and essential book that examines the history of kindness and shows how we can restore it in these troubled times that so desperately need it.
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This book is a rigorous argument, based on the history of European ideas and psychoanalytical doctrine, that we fail to recognize and value intelligently one of ...
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In this book, Phillips and Taylor, investigate the history and psychology of kindness. They conclude that kindness is an essential element of a healthy life.
Jul 13, 2015 · The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and ...
Jul 29, 2009 · We all battle against our innate kindness, this book claims.
Jan 10, 2009 · Review: On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor A history of kindness offers an absorbing overview of a defining attribute, finds Mary
In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness and re ...
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Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory, this brief and essential book will return to its readers what ...
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In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness.
