Pity in Fin-de-Siecle French Culture: "Liberte, Egalite, Pitie" Sanchez, Gonzalo J.

The scrutiny of pity as a cardinal altruistic attribute has emerged in the last two decades as a significant common denominator in disciplines ranging from philosophy to social psychology and comparative literature to gender studies. "Pity" is a term and concept of tremendous importance to a historian and interpreter of the humanities and social sciences. It is a prism through which to examine how given cultures attach value to nonrational components of social life and of human flourishing. Sanchez describes how an appeal to a reader's sense of traditional "pity" in the writings of French philosophers, pedagogues, social theorists, and novelists interacted, in the sociopolitical sphere of the fin-de-siecle, with the interest in studying and promoting this very virtue as a principle of social attachment.

DOI: 10.1336/0275980006 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C8000.aspx

Pity in Fin-de-Siecle French Culture: "Liberte, Egalite, Pitie" Hardback, 328 pages, $75.00 Copyright ©2004, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-275-98000-6 DOI: 10.1336/0275980006

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