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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam Phillips, Barbara TaylorPublish date:2010-06-22Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312429744ISBN-10:312429746UPC:9780312429744Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:Social, Interpersonal Relations, Social HistorySize:7.00 x 4.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCE225JQRZ

On Kindness

In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness and return to the reader the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion.

Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with suc...
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312429744ISBN-10:312429746UPC:9780312429744Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, HistoryBook Subcategory:Social, Interpersonal Relations, Social HistorySize:7.00 x 4.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCE225JQRZ

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than a dozen books, all widely acclaimed, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Going Sane; and Side Effects.

Barbara Taylor has published several highly regarded books on the history of feminism, including the award-winning Eve and the New Jerusalem.

She and Adam Phillips both live in London.
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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