Empathy and its Limits

Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

219 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137552365 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.10.2015
Zusatzinfo	XI, 219 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781137552365 / 9781137552365
Zustand	Neuware