On Kindness

In the book On Kindness, an eminent psychoanalyst (Adam Phillips) and historian (Barbara Taylor) examine the pleasures and perils of kindness. They believe that people of our generation have been taught to perceive ourselves as fundamentally antagonistic to one another; we have chosen loneliness over connection. In this book, they explain how and why we have chosen loneliness over connection. The book draws on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory.