A provocative and elegant defense of the art of kindness in a selfish age, "On Kindness" argues that a life lived in instinctive, sympathetic identification with others is the one societies should allow themselves to live.
In this brilliant, epigrammatic book, the eminent psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and the social historian Barbara Taylor examine the terrors of kindness and return to the reader the intense satisfactions of generosity and compassion.
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world?