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Rereading Empathy

By Emily Johansen

Rereading Empathy

By Emily Johansen

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Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what does it offer that older models of solidarity don't? Why empathy-and why now?
Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable-and to query alternative models of building collective futures.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
190
Release Date:
2022-06-02
Publication Date:
2022-06-02
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501376853
ISBN13:
9781501376856
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
434 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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