Fruits of sorrow : framing our attention to suffering /
Elizabeth V. Spelman.
- Boston : Beacon Press, c1997.
- x, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Suffering and the economy of attention -- Good grief! It's Plato! -- Slavery and tragedy -- The heady political life of compassion -- The virtue of feeling and the feeling of virtue -- Changing the subject: on making your suffering mine -- On the aesthetic usability of suffering -- Suffering as the human condition.