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100 1 $aSpelman, Elizabeth V.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88137971
245 10 $aFruits of sorrow :$bframing our attention to suffering /$cElizabeth V. Spelman.
260 $aBoston, Mass. :$bBeacon Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $ax, 206 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Suffering and the Economy of Attention --$gCh. 1.$tGood Grief! It's Plato! --$gCh. 2.$tSlavery and Tragedy --$gCh. 3.$tThe Heady Political Life of Compassion --$gCh. 4.$tThe Virtue of Feeling and the Feeling of Virtue --$gCh. 5.$tChanging the Subject: On Making Your Suffering Mine --$gCh. 6.$tOn the Aesthetic Usability of Suffering --$tConclusion: Suffering as the Human Condition.
520 $aThrough a blend of intellectual history, philosophical reading, and contemporary cultural analysis, Fruits of Sorrow explores the hidden dynamics at work when we try to make sense of suffering. Spelman examines the complex ways in which we try to redeem the pain we cause and witness.
520 8 $aShe shows the way our responses are often more than they seem: how compassion can mask condescension; how identifying with others' pain often slips into illicit appropriation; how pity can reinforce the unequal relationship between those who cause and those who endure suffering.
520 8 $aRefections on Aristotle lead Spelman to a tour-de-force on why American slavery cannot be called an American "tragedy" without distracting from the real suffering of African Americans. Spelman links Plato's rejection of tragedy with Arlene Croce's much-talked-about refusal to review the recent Bill T. Jones dance about AIDS and other terminal illnesses.
520 8 $aShe discusses current debates about "victimhood," racism on college campuses, nineteenth-century African-American writer Harriet Jacobs, the history of women's inhumanity toward other women as a necessary topic for feminist ethics, what it might mean to say that suffering is the human condition, and much more.
650 0 $aSuffering.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129634
852 00 $bglx$hB105.S79$iS68 1997