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.

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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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