Empathy and its Limits. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers.
• Editors: Assmann, Aleida; Detmers, Ines
• 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
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 152.4/1; Empathy; Caring; Media Studies; Social History; Emotions; Society & social sciences; Media studies; Social & cultural history; Caring; Empathy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137552389; 1137552387
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.