On Kindness
$30.60
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2010
Summary
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken its place.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141039336 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141039337 |
| Author: | Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 130mm x 177mm |
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Critics Review
Admirable, fascinating, entirely readable and absorbing * Observer *
A true tract for difficult times * The Times *
Rewarding reading * Evening Standard *
Praise for Side Effects:
‘Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy … refreshingly lucid observations … Phillips is riveting … he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision’ Telegraph
‘Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense … brilliant, baffling and fascinating’ Observer
Praise for Side Effects:
‘Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy … refreshingly lucid observations … Phillips is riveting … he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision’ Telegraph
‘Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense … brilliant, baffling and fascinating’ Observer
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He was formerly the Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London.
He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including The Life You Want, On Giving Up, and On Getting Better.
Phillips is the General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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