On Kindness

By: Babara Taylor, Barbara Taylor, Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor

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Paperback | 27 November 2009 | Edition Number 1

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128 Pages

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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.

'A true tract for difficult times' The Times

'Rewarding reading' Evening Standard

'Elegantly argued' Irish Times

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'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

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'Frequent moments of brilliance, sentences that sing out as containing perfect sense . . . brilliant, baffling and fascinating' Observer

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