Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Selfishness and Selflessness: New Approaches to Understanding Morality
ISBN-10
1789205506
ISBN-13
9781789205503
Category
Social Science
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2020-04-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Linda L. Layne

Description

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection. Contributions range from an examination of how these concepts animated the eighteenth-century anti-slavery campaigners to dissecting the way middle-class mothers’ experiences illustrate gendered struggles over how much and to whom one is morally obliged to give.

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