William S. Hamrick is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of An Existential Phenomenology of Law: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the editor of Phenomenology in Practice and Theory.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

1. Acts and Omissions

2. Personal Kindness

3. The Agency of Kindness

4. Social Atmospheres, Technology, and Nature

5. Institutions and Community

Part II

6. The Hermeneutic Challenge

7. Ideologies

8. Critical Kindness: Towards an Aesthetic Humanism

Notes

Bibliography

Index