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Titolo |
Empathy and its Limits / / edited by Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Historiography |
Communication |
Culture—Study and teaching |
Children's literature |
Emotions |
Memory Studies |
Media and Communication |
Cultural and Media Studies, general |
Children's Literature |
Emotion |
Media Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Politics of Empathy; 1 The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy; 2 Unequal Equals: How Politics Can Block Empathy; 3 Empathy, Ethics, and Politics in Holocaust Historiography; Part II: Changes in Historical Sensibility; 4 Empathy in the Theater of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart; 5 From Sympathy to Empathy: Trajectories of Rights in the Twentieth Century; 6 The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich; 7 Looking Away in Nazi Germany; Part III: Ethical Issues |
8 Empathy for Empathy's Sake: Aesthetics and Everyday Empathic Sadism9 The Aesth-ethics of Empathy: Bakhtin and the Return to Self as Ethical Act; 10 'For ye know the Heart of the Stranger': Empathy, Memory, and the Biblical Ideal of a 'Decent Society'; 11 Diaspora, Art, |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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