Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics by Luc Boltanski

Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics

Luc Boltanski with Graham D. Burchell (Translator)

268 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 force...

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