Indifference to the Suffering of Others

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Indifference to the Suffering of Others (Non-Kairos references)

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Adams, James / Dow, Jay / Merrill III, Samuel.  The Political Consequences of Alienation-Based and Indifference-Based Voter Abstention: applications to presidential elections. Political Behavior, 28, 2006, 1, pp. 65-86. [abstract]

Amato, Joseph A.  Victims and Values: a history and a theory of suffering. Praeger, 1990.

Amato, Joseph A.  Politics of Suffering. International Social Science Review, 69, 1994, 1/2. [review]

Auron, Yair.  The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide. Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Barett, Michael.  The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations and Genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia. In: This Time We Knew: Western Reactions to Genocide in Bosnia. Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Mestrovic, eds. New York University Press, 1996, pp. 128-162.

Barnett, Michael N.  The UN Security Council, Indifference and Genocide in Rwanda. University of Wisconsin, 1997. [text]

Barry, Kathleen.  Indifference has no Justification in the 21st Century: a critical analysis of Elie Weisel's The Perils of Indifference. 2010. [text]

Bennett, Stephen Earl.  Apathy in America, 1960-1984: causes and consequences of citizen political indifference. Transnational Pub, 1986.

Boltanski, Luc.  Distant Suffering: morality, media and politics. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Bressman, Eric.  Fighting Indifference: looking at world response to the Holocaust with Elie Wiesel. The Morningside Review. [text]

Brice, James.  German Holocaust Literature: trends and tendencies. University of Constance, 2006. [text]

Brown, Michael D. / Schwarz, Ted.  Deadly Indifference: The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House and Beyond. Taylor Trade Publications, 2011.

Cassell, E. J.  Recognizing Suffering. Hastings Center Report, 21, 1991, 3. [text]

Chiuliaraki, Lilie.  The Spectatorship of Suffering. Sage, 2006. [text]

Cohen, David.  Indifference and Accountability: the United Nations and the politics of international justice in East Timor. East-West Center, 2006.

Cohen, Stanley.  States of Denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering. Polity Press, 2001.

Cole, David.  Torture Memos: rationalizing the unthinkable. New Press, 2009.

Craig, Mary.  Suffering: Our Human Situation. The Way, January, 1973. [text]

Cromwell, David.  Beyond Indifference. Cogitations, 30 April 2004. [text]

Danziger, Nicolas / Prkachin, Kenneth M. / Willer, Jean-Claude.  Is Pain the Price of Empathy?. The perception of others' pain in patients with congenital insensitivity to pain. Brain, 129, 2006, 9, pp. 2494-2507. [text]

Daoust, Robert.  The Study and Management of Pain Require a New Discipline about Suffering. (Paper for the Making Sense of Pain conference, Prague, 2012). [text]

Davies, James.  The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent. Routledge, 2011. [extract]

Davies, James.  The Rationalization of Suffering: contrary narratives of emotional discontent interplay in complex ways. Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 39, 1 and 2. [text]

Dawkins, Richard.  River Out of Eden: a Darwinian view of life. Basic Books, 1996.

Epstein, Helen.  Time of Indifference. The New York Review of Books, 12 April 2001. [text]

Fisichella, Rino.  The New Evangelization: responding to the challenge of indifference. Gracewing Publishing, 2012.

Ford, S. Dennis.  Sins of Omission: a primer on moral indifference. Fortress Press, 1990.

Friedman, Debra.  Towards a Structure of Indifference: the social origins of maternal custody. Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Gantt, Edwin E.  Levinas, Psychotherapy and the Ethics of Suffering. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2000 40, pp. 9-28. [abstract]

Geras, Norman.  The Contract of Mutual Indifference: political philosophy after the Holocaust. Verso Books, 1999.

Gray, Erik Irving.  The Poetry Of Indifference: from the Romantics to the Rubaiyat. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

Halpern, Cynthia.  Suffering, Politics, Power: a genealogy in modern political theory. State University of New York Press, 2002.

Helton, Arthur C.  The Price of Indifference: refugees and humanitarian action in the new century. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hensell, Eugene.  The Bible on Suffering: social and political implications. Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 65, 2003, 2. [review]

Herman, Edward S.  Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda: Including A Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s. Black Rose Book, 1992.

Herzfeld, Michael.  The Social Production of Indifference: exploring the symbolic roots of western bureaucracy. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Hoskins, James.  Why the Powerful Often Lack Empathy. Patheos, 21 August 2013. [text]

Jacoboni, M.  Mirroring People: the new science of how we connect with others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Jacobs, Jaclyn.  Indifference: an ignored problem in society. 2013. [text]

Jordaan, Edvard.  Responsibility, Indifference and Global Poverty: a Levinasian perspective. Peeters Publishers, 2006.

Kelly, Kathy.  The Longest War: overcoming lies and indifference. The Progressive, 8 July 2012. [text]

Kreger, Randi.  Lack of Empathy: the most telling narcissistic trait. Psychology Now, 24 January 2012. [text]

Kukathas, Chandran.  Liberalism and Multiculturalism: the politics of indifference. Political Theory, 26, 1998, 5, pp. 686-699. [abstract]

Labonte, Ronald / Schrecker, Ted.  Fatal Indifference: the G8, Africa and global health. Juta Academic, 2004.

Levinas, Emmanuel.  Useless Suffering. In: Entre Nous: thinking of the other. Columbia University Press, 1998.

Lewis, C. S.  The Problem of Pain. Centenary Press, 1940. [summary]

Lillehammer, Hallvard.  The Ethics of Indifference. Routledge, 2013.

Linzey, Andrew.  Why Animal Suffering Matters. Oxford University Press, 2009. [review]

Lutz, William.  Doublespeak: From "Revenue Enhancement" to "Terminal Living": How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You. Harper and Row, 1987.

Lutz, William.  Beyond 1984: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age. National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.

Makin, Stephen.  Indifference Arguments. Blackwell, 1993.

Marschke, Lori A.  Proving Deliberate Indifference: next to impossible for mentally ill inmates. Valparaiso University Law Review, 39, 2004, 2, pp. 487-539. [text]

Martin, Randy.  An Empire of Indifference: American War and the financial logic of risk management. Duke University Press Books, 2007.

Mayerfeld, Jamie.  Suffering and Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press, 2005.

McDonald, Nicole M. / Messinger, Daniel S.  The Development of Empatjhy: how, when and why. University of Miami. [text]

McNeil, Caroline.  End-of-life suffering begins to attract research attention. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 89, 1997, 24. [text]

Mendoza, Linnea.  Indifference, How it makes the Human Being, Inhuman. 8 May 2013. [video]

Miles, Jim.  U.S. Veto: Speaking With Forked-tongue. Global Research, 20 February 2011. [text]

Mohler, Albert.  America's Aborted Conscience: the sin of moral indifference. Christian Training School. [text]

Morris, David B.  The Culture of Pain. University of California, 2002.

Reis, Brian.  Satanic Indifference and Ultimate Reality. LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research, December 2012. [text]

Rey, Roseline.  Histoire de la Douleur. Editions La Découverte, 1993.

Sands, Philippe.  Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the betrayal of American values. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Scarry, Elaine.  The Body in Pain: the making and unmaking of the world. Oxford University Press, 1987.

Schuback, Marcia Sá Cavalcante.  Towards a phenomenology of pain and suffering: a reflection on Max Scheler's phenomenology of pain and suffering.. [text]

Schwab, Klaus  (Ed.).    Overcoming Indifference: 10 Key Challenges in Today's Changing World. NYU Press, 1995.

Scott, Charles E.  Living with Indifference. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Siems, Larry.  The Torture Report: What the Documents say about America's Post 9/11 Torture Program. OR Books, 2012.

Siu, Ralph G. H.  Panetics: the study of the infliction of suffering. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 28 1988, 3. [abstract]

Siu, Ralph G. H.  Panetics Trilogy. The International Society for Panetics, 1994.

Sontag, Susan.  Regarding the Pain of Others. Picador, 2004.

Stone, Milton Anthony.  The Philosophy of Indifference: an introduction to a revised ethical etandard for modern Americans. Southgate Press, 1931.

Sussman, Henry.  Afterimages of Modernity: structure and indifference in Twentieth-Century Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Sussman, Henry / Devenney, Christopher  (Eds.).    Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Political. SUNY Press, 2001.

Takis, Andreas.  Law's Moral Indifference. Hart Publishing, 2014.

Taryam, Aysha.  The Opposite of Indifference: a collection of commentaries. Dar Al Khaleej, 2011.

Thompson, Joel H.  Today's Deliberate Indifference: providing attention without providing treatment to prisoners with serious medical needs. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 45, 2010. [text]

Wiesel, Elie.  The Perils of Indifference. American Rhetoric, 12 April 1999. [text]

Wilkinson, Iain.  Suffering: a sociological introduction. Polity Press, 2005.

Wrisley, George.  Nietzsche and the Value of Suffering: two alternative ideals.. [text]

Wuthnow, Robert.  Learning to Care: elementary kindness in an Age of Indifference. Oxford University Press, 1995.