Distant suffering : morality, media, and politics /

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What is the morally acceptable response to images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television? Luc Boltanski discusses the ways in which spectators have tried to respond to what they have seen and asks if there remains a place for pity in modern politics.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boltanski, Luc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subjects:
Suffering.
Sympathy.
Social participation.
Humanitarianism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social Participation
Souffrance.
Sympathie.
Participation sociale.
Téléspectateurs > Attitudes.
Humanitaire > Aspect moral.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Sympathy
Social participation
Suffering
Massamedia.
Rampen.
Engagement.
Suffering > Social aspects.
Humanitarianism.
Disasters > Social aspects.
Television broadcasting of news > Moral and ethical aspects.
Humanitarisme.
Catastrophes > Aspect social.
Pitié.
Médias > Aspect social.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The politics of pity; 2 Taking sides; 3 The moral spectator; 4 The topic of denunciation; 5 The topic of sentiment; 6 The critique of sentimentalism; 7 The aesthetic topic; 8 Heroes and the accursed; 9 What reality has misfortune?; 10 How realistic is action?; Notes; Index.

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