Empathy and its Limits
Published on 26. October 2015
Book
Hardback
XI, 219 pages
978-1-137-55236-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume extends the theoretical scope of the important concept of empathy by analysing not only the cultural contexts that foster the generating of empathy, but in focusing also on the limits of pro-social feelings and the mechanisms that lead to its blocking.
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Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XI, 219 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-55236-5 (9781137552365)
DOI
10.1057/9781137552372
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Aleida Assmann | Ines DETMERS
Empathy and its Limits
E-Book
01/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
€139.09
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Aleida Assmann | Ines DETMERS
Empathy and Its Limits
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Jan Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany
Shelley Berlowitz, University of Konstanz, Germany
Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USA
Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Sophie Oliver, University of London, UK
Jacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia
Jay Winter, Yale University, USA
Content
Introduction; Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers) PART I: THE POLITICS OF EMPATHY 1. The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy; Steven E. Aschheim 2. How Politics Can Block Empathy; Shelley Berlowitz 3. Empathy, Ethics and Politics in Holocaust Historiography; Amos Goldberg PART II: CHANGES IN HISTORICAL SENSIBILITY 4. Empathy in the Theatre of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart; Ute Frevert 5. From Sympathy to Empathy; Jay Winter 6. The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich; Peter Fritzsche 7. Looking Away in Nazi Germany; Aleida Assmann PART III: ETHICAL ISSUES 8. Empathy for Empathy's Sake: Aesthetics and Everyday Empathic Sadism; Fritz Breithaupt 9. The Aesth-ethics of Empathy: Bakhtin and the Return to Self as Ethical Act; Sophie Oliver 10. 'For ye know the heart of the stranger': Empathy, Memory, and the Biblical Ideal of a 'Decent Society'; Jan Assmann 11. Diaspora, Art and Empathy; Jacqueline Lo