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An Early History of Compassion
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Françoise Mirguet
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassi
An Early History of Compassion
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Françoise Mirguet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Kristine Steenbergh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Susan Wessel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines how early Christians cultivated affective compassion as a virtue in a Roman world that valued emotional tranquillity.
Empathy
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Susan Lanzoni
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-25 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A surprising, sweeping, and deeply researched history of empathy—from late-nineteenth-century German aesthetics to mirror neurons†‹ Empathy: A History tel