Distant suffering : morality, media, and politics
Examining the moral implications for a spectator of the distant suffering of others as presented through the media, this book asks what the morally acceptable responses are to suffering seen on TV, and what, if anything, the viewer can do
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999
xviii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
9780521573894, 9780521659536, 9786610418602, 0521573890, 0521659531, 6610418608
42660556
Part 1 The question of the spectator
The politics of pity
Taking sides
The moral spectator
Part 2 The topics of suffering
The topic of denunciation
The topic of sentiment
The critique of sentimentalism
The aesthetic topic
Heroes and the accursed
Part 3 The crisis of pity
What reality has misfortune
How realistic is action
Translated from the French
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