03309nam 2200625 450 991081365810332120230126221113.01-5017-3560-810.7591/9781501735608(CKB)4100000008152826(MiAaPQ)EBC5763923(OCoLC)1089256950(MdBmJHUP)muse74559(DE-B1597)527454(DE-B1597)9781501735608(Au-PeEL)EBL5763923(EXLCZ)99410000000815282620190517d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe dark sides of empathy /Fritz Breithaupt ; translated by Andrew B.B. Hamilton1st edition.Ithaca ;London :Cornell University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (288 pages)Originally published in German under the title: Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie.1-5017-2164-X 1-5017-3561-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Self-Loss --2. Painting in Black and White --3. False Empathy, Filtered Empathy --4. Empathetic Sadism --5. Vampiristic Empathy --Epilogue: Empathy between Morality and Aesthetics --Notes --Bibliography --IndexMany consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of over-identification and a desire to increase empathy. Even well-meaning compassion can have many unintended consequences, such as intensifying conflicts or exploiting others. Empathy plays a central part in a variety of highly problematic behaviors. From mere callousness to terrorism, exploitation to sadism, and emotional vampirism to stalking, empathy all too often motivates and promotes malicious acts. After tracing the development of empathy as an idea in German philosophy, Breithaupt looks at a wide-ranging series of case studies-from Stockholm syndrome to Angela Merkel's refugee policy and from novels of the romantic era to helicopter parents and murderous cheerleader moms-to uncover how narcissism, sadism, and dangerous celebrity obsessions alike find their roots in the quality that, arguably, most makes us human.EmpathySocial interactionInterpersonal relationsGerman philosophy.conflict.desire to increase empathy.development of empathy.exploitation.Empathy.Social interaction.Interpersonal relations.152.41Breithaupt Fritz1967-1706348Hamilton Andrew B. B.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813658103321The dark sides of empathy4093701UNINA