The evolution of sympathy in the long eighteenth century
By: by Jonathan Lamb
Series: Enlightenment world -- no. 12
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781851968541; 9781851966905
Subjects: Sympathy; Social ethics; History
Description: This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre and torture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.