Empathy : emotional, ethical and epistemological narratives
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Empathy : emotional, ethical and epistemological narratives
(At the interface : probing the boundaries / Robert Fisher, series editor, v. 123)
Brill Rodopi, c2019
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Empathy is sometimes a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. This volume looks for the common ground between the results of Digital Media ideas on the subject, fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, and finally even in Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance.
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1 Introduction: The Joyful Pathos from Oxford
Ricardo Gutierrez Aguilar
2 In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and Revolution
Josefa Ros Velasco
3 Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional Suffering
Victoria Aizkalna
4 From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume's Moral Philosophy
Gerardo Lopez Sastre
5 Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Moral Psychology of pitie
Nina Lex
6 Empathy in Education: the Successful Teacher
Giovanna Costantini
7 Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological Journey
Irina Ionita
8 Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology Clinic
Judy Rollins
9 Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles' Ajax
Christopher J. Staley
10 Empathy in Experimental Narratives
Baris Mete
11 On the Bearability of Others Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its Justification
Ricardo Gutierrez Aguilar
12 The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an Exploration
Paulus Pimomo
13 Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of 'Empathic Unsettlement'
Rosa E. Belvedresi
14 Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global Justice
Johannes Rohbeck
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