Promises, pedagogy and pitfalls : empathys potential for healing and harm / edited by Pam Morrison, Quanta Gauld and Veronica Wain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrison, Pam, editor.

Gauld, Quanta, editor.

Wain, Veronica, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]

Summary:

This volume explores empathy's potential for healing and harm, and its potency to effect change for good or ill, at inter-personal, ecological and global levels.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Quanta Gauld , Pam Morrison and Veronica Wain

Empathy Development: Natural or Cultural? / Tatiana Karyagina

Adorno, Empathy and Action: A Neurological and Philosophical Investigation / Ben Fulman

Empathy and the Self: Constitutive or Phenomenal? / Annie Sandrussi

What, if Anything, Can Baron-Cohen Tell us About Empathy? / Gavin Fairbairn

On the Possible Connection between Empathy and Evil in Literature: Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw / Anna Lindhé

Sympathy with the Devil or Playing with Empathy / Benjamin Van Tourhout

Empathic Representations of White Racists in Two Contemporary African American Novels / Paul Tewkesbury

The Role of Co-Journaling in Empathy through Terminal Illness / Pam Morrison

Disability, Empathy and Journalism / Lucy Reynolds

The Capacity to Empathise as a Basis of Ethics: Educational Implications / Fiorenza Loiacono

The Seven Types Of Empathy: Illusion, Reality and Methodical Empathy 21st Century Report on the Progress of Empathy / Yehuda Tagar

Invoking Cross Cultural Empathy in Film: Process, Practice and Possibilities for Inspiring a Reimagining of Peace / Veronica Wain

Empathic Activism: Only the Radical Power of Empathy Can Save the World / Charles King

‘If You Talk, You Don’t Kill’: Empathic Imagination in the Classroom and on the World Stage / Alice Lombardo Maher.

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ISBN:

1-84888-428-1

OCLC:

1239990261

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884281 DOI