Compassion's Edge

Autorentext

Katherine Ibbett

Klappentext

Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Caroline de Jager Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

Zusammenfassung
Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Inhalt

Introduction. Compassion's Edge
Chapter 1. Pitiful Sights: Reading the Wars of Religion
Chapter 2. The Compassion Machine: Theories of Fellow-Feeling, 1570-1692
Chapter 3. Caritas, Compassion, and Religious Difference
Chapter 4. Pitiful States: Marital Miscompassion and the Historical Novel
Chapter 5. Affective Absolutism and the Problem of Religious Difference
Chapter 6. Compassionate Labor in Seventeenth-Century Montreal
Epilogue. Something Like Compassion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments