Conversations on empathy : interdisciplinary perspectives on imagination and radical othering /

"In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy - be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Mezzenzana, Francesca (Editor), Peluso, Daniela (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Subjects:	Caring. Empathy. Other (Philosophy) Imagination. Humanité (Morale) Empathie. Altérité. empathy. Caring Empathy Imagination Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Empathy and its limits : a manifesto / C. Jason Throop
Being open and looking on : fluctuations in everyday life and Psychology / Vasudevi Reddy
A psychological exploration of empathy / Heather J. Ferguson and Lena Wimmer
Autism and the 'double empathy problem' / Damian E. M. Milton, Krysia Emily Waldock, and Nathan Keates
Dynamics and vicissitudes of empathy / Douglas Hollan
Should we be against empathy? : engagement with antiheroes in fiction and the theoretical implications for empathy's role in morality / Margrethe Bruun Vaage
Cultivating an empathic impulse in wartime Ukraine / Catherine Wanner and Valentyna Pavlenko
Capital empathy, and the inequality of the radical other / Robin Truth Goodman
Situating empathy : Holocaust education for the Middle East/Muslim minority in Germany / Esra Özyürek
Just like humans : similarity, difference and empathy towards nonhumans in the Amazonian rainforest / Francesca Mezzenzana
Un-tabooing empathy : the benefits of empathic science with nonhuman research participants / Christine Webb, Becca Franks, Monica Gagliano and Barbara Smuts
Augenblick and the rush' of extraordinary encounters : empathy and sociality with non-human radical others in Amazonia / Daniela Peluso
Implications of children's social, emotional, and relational interactions with robots for human-robot empathy / Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund
Afterword : empathy's entanglements / Carolyn Pedwell.