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Empathy and democracy : feeling, thinking, and deliberation / Michael E. Morrell.
LIBRA JC423 .M724 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrell, Michael E., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--Psychological aspects.
- Empathy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- "An interdisciplinary study of democratic theory, empirical political science, psychology, and philosophy. Proposes a multidimensional process model of empathy that incorporates both affective and cognitive features to demonstrate the importance of empathy in fulfilling democracy's promise of giving equal consideration to all citizens in collective decisions"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The democratic promise
- The deliberative turn in democratic theory
- The elusive concept of empathy
- Empathy in deliberative theory
- Empathy's importance : the empirical evidence
- Deliberative democracy and its critics
- Empathy and democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271036595
- 0271036591
- OCLC:
- 432315116
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