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UNINA9910480666703321 |
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Calloway-Thomas Carolyn <1943-> |
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Titolo |
Empathy in the global world [[electronic resource] ] : an intercultural perspective / / Carolyn Calloway-Thomas |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2010 |
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1-4129-5790-7 |
1-4522-1352-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Cultural relations |
Empathy |
Humanitarianism |
Intercultural communication |
Electronic books. |
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 - A Global Imperative: The Unveiling of Empathy; 2 - The Creation of Empathy: From Ancients to Moderns; 3 - Geopolitics: The Spoils of Empathy; 4 - Immigration: Empathy's Flickering Flames?; 5 - Crafting Images: Media and Empathy; 6 - Catastrophes, Tsunamis, and Katrinas; 7 - "I Didn't Do It for You" Organizations, Class, and Poverty; 8 - Empathetic Literacy Come, Shout About It?; References; Index; About the Author |
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Evidence of violence and hatred worldwide - from the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to the war in Iraq - call special attention to the critical importance of empathy in human affairs. This text examines the nature and zones of empathy, exploring how an understanding of empathy shapes global talk and action. |
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UNINA9910781606703321 |
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Autore |
Kysar Douglas A |
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Regulating from nowhere [[electronic resource] ] : environmental law and the search for objectivity / / Douglas A. Kysar |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010 |
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1-283-26086-7 |
9786613260864 |
0-300-16330-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 314 p.)) |
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Environmental law - Philosophy |
Environmental law - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Agency and optimality -- Prescription and precaution -- Complexity and catastrophe -- Interests and emergence -- Other states -- Other generations -- Other forms of life -- Ecological rationality -- Environmental constitutionalism. |
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Drawing insight from a diverse array of sources - including moral philosophy, political theory, cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and technology studies - Douglas Kysar offers a new theoretical basis for understanding environmental law and policy. He exposes a critical flaw in the dominant policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, which asks policymakers to, in essence, "regulate from nowhere." As Kysar shows, such an objectivist stance fails to adequately motivate ethical engagement with the most pressing and challenging aspects of environmental law and policy, which concern how we relate to future generations, foreign nations, and other forms of life. Indeed, world governments struggle to address climate change and other pressing environmental issues in large part because dominant methods of policy analysis obscure the central reasons for acting to ensure environmental sustainability. To compensate for these shortcomings, Kysar first offers a novel defense of the precautionary principle and other commonly misunderstood features of |
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environmental law and policy. He then concludes by advocating a movement toward environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury we can afford. |
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