Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves
- ISBN-10
- 140082057X
- ISBN-13
- 9781400820573
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-08-23
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Robert Wuthnow
Description
Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.
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