What is interest? It is the involuntary feeling by which we adapt the experience to ourselves, the sympathy which puts us in the place of the sufferer.
- In Dukore's Dramatic Theory, p. 300 (noted January 17, 1994) more »
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Michael Ignatieff
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DavidAkin
on Sun 09 Nov 2003 07:07 AM EST
For the citizens of the NATO countries, on the other hand, the war was virtual. They were mobilized not as combatants but as spectators.
The war was a spectacle: it aroused emotions in the intense but shallow way that sports do. The events in question were as remote from their ... more » |
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