Empathy and Its Limits

Informationen zum Autor Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jan Assmann, University of Konstanz, GermanyShelley Berlowitz, University of Konstanz, GermanyFritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USAUte Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, GermanyPeter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USAAmos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, JerusalemSophie Oliver, University of London, UKJacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, AustraliaJay Winter, Yale University, USA Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Aleida Detmers Assmann
• Assisted by: Aleid Assmann (Editor), Aleida Assmann (Editor), Detmers (Editor), Detmers (Editor), Ines Detmers (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137552365
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55236-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Emotion, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Communication, Society & culture: general, Psychology: emotions, Emotions, Historiography, Media and Communication, Memory Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Children's Literature, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general