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Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics
Distant Suffering Morality Media and Politics
Author: Luc Boltanski
Images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television in the comfort of our homes implicitly call on us to act. What can we do when the suffering we see is so distant and we feel powerless compared with the forces behind the suffering? Luc Boltanski examines the ways in which, since the end of the eighteenth ce...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521573894
ISBN-10: 0521573890
Publication Date: 5/1/1999
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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