Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / Robert Wuthnow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wuthnow, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caring.

Helping behavior.

Individualism--United States.

Voluntarism--United States.

Local Subjects:

Caring.

Helping behavior.

Individualism--United States.

Voluntarism--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I: THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUALISM

CHAPTER ONE: An American Paradox

CHAPTER TWO: Caring and/for Our Selves

PART II: LANGUAGES OF COMPASSION

CHAPTER THREE: Talking about Motives

CHAPTER FOUR: Finding Fulfillment

PART III: THE ROLE OF FAITH

CHAPTER FIVE: Conviction and Community

CHAPTER SIX: Along the Road

PART IV: THE LIMITS OF CARING

CHAPTER SEVEN: Bounded Love

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tarnished Image

PART V: THE WIDER CONTEXT

CHAPTER NINE: Envisioning a Better Society

CHAPTER TEN: The Case for Compassion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786612751509

9781400808786

1400808782

9781400808762

1400808766

9781282751507

1282751506

9781400820573

140082057X

OCLC:

700688722