Empathy and its Limits

by Aleida Assmann (Editor), Ines Detmers (Editor)

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781137552365
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/08/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jan Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Shelley Berlowitz, University of Konstanz, Germany Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USA Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Sophie Oliver, University of London, UK Jacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia Jay Winter, Yale University, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction; Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers)
PART I: THE POLITICS OF EMPATHY
1. The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy; Steven E. Aschheim
2. How Politics Can Block Empathy; Shelley Berlowitz
3. Empathy, Ethics and Politics in Holocaust Historiography; Amos Goldberg
PART II: CHANGES IN HISTORICAL SENSIBILITY
4. Empathy in the Theatre of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart; Ute Frevert
5. From Sympathy to Empathy; Jay Winter
6. The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich; Peter Fritzsche
7. Looking Away in Nazi Germany; Aleida Assmann
PART III: ETHICAL ISSUES
8. Empathy for Empathy's Sake: Aesthetics and Everyday Empathic Sadism; Fritz Breithaupt
9. The Aesth-ethics of Empathy: Bakhtin and the Return to Self as Ethical Act; Sophie Oliver
10. 'For ye know the heart of the stranger': Empathy, Memory, and the Biblical Ideal of a 'Decent Society'; Jan Assmann
11. Diaspora, Art and Empathy; Jacqueline Lo