{"product_id":"9781472576378","title":"Sympathetic Sentiments Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSympathetic Sentiments\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAffect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJohn Jervis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ History \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSympathetic Sentiments \u003c\/i\u003edevelops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese tensions are traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive 'spectacle of sympathy', in which sympathy entails public forms of expression whereby being on show is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated. This, John Jervis suggests, is at the root of a range of controversies central to modern life, art and culture, including contemporary debates around trauma and compassion fatigue. Connected to these debates is the issue of modern sensationalism, discussed here and elaborated in a companion volume: \u003ci\u003eSensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, which is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Jervis\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.  He is the author of \u003ci\u003eExploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) and \u003ci\u003eTransgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eUncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties \u003c\/i\u003e(2008).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 March 2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472576378\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20.48\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331240689804,"sku":"9781472576378","price":157.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e9c1f95c-b4a2-4de1-85f9-1745c8b6bd6d.jpg?v=1783595413","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781472576378","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}