Rereading Empathy

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? 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.>

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• Authors: Emily Johansen, Johansen Emily, Alissa G Karl
• Assisted by: Karl Alissa G. Karl (Editor), Johansen Emily Johansen (Editor), Emily Johansen (Editor), Alissa G. Karl (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781501376856
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-7685-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economic systems and structures, Literary essays, Literary theory, Social and ethical issues, Literature: history and criticism