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OverviewA brief and beautiful exploration of the pleasures of kindness - for an age that seems ready to forget them What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism has taken its place. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam Phillips , Barbara TaylorPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 17.80cm Weight: 0.086kg ISBN: 9780141039336ISBN 10: 0141039337 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 27 November 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Side Effects: 'Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy . . . refreshingly lucid observations . . . Phillips is riveting . . . he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision' Telegraph 'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense . . . brilliant, baffling and fascinating' Observer Praise for Side Effects: 'Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy . . . refreshingly lucid observations . . . Phillips is riveting . . . he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision' Telegraph 'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense . . . brilliant, baffling and fascinating' Observer Praise for Side Effects: 'Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy ... refreshingly lucid observations ... Phillips is riveting ... he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision' Telegraph 'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense ... brilliant, baffling and fascinating' Observer Praise for Side Effects: 'Erudite sparks from art, literature, science and philosophy ... refreshingly lucid observations ... Phillips is riveting ... he bangs nails on heads, and into coffins, with such eloquent precision' Telegraph 'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense ... brilliant, baffling and fascinating' Observer Author InformationAdam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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