Empathy : : emotional, ethical and epistemological narratives / / Ricardo Gutierrez Aguilar.

• Author: Aguilar Melantzón, Ricardo
• TeilnehmendeR: Gutiérrez Aguilar, Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 123.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

Empathy is sometimes –for unfathomable reasons– a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is indeed a problem open to discussion. It can be particularly problematic since, for one thing, it is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. It is the emotion essential to bridging the gap between subjects – to making a community. Some answers in this volume have their place of reference in the welcoming chambers of Mansfield College , at the University of Oxford (UK). The Empathy Project held its third Global Meeting within the premises of ye olde constituent college at Mansfield Road from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th of July 2016. This volume looks for the common ground between both the results of the conducted research and our experiences: Digital Media ideas on the subject worked just fine elbow to elbow with those proposed by fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care; and Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy got along quite well with the lines of inquiry of Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance. Contributors are Victoria Aizkalna, Rosa Elena Belvedresi, Giovanna Costantini, Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar, Irina Ionita, Nina Lex, Gerardo López Sastre, Barış Mete, Paulus Pimomo, Johannes Rohbeck, Judy Rollins, Josefa Ros Velasco and Christopher J. Staley.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from Oxford / Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar -- In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and Revolution / Josefa Ros Velasco -- Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional Suffering / Victoria Aizkalna -- From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume’s Moral Philosophy / Gerardo López Sastre -- Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral Psychology of Pitié / Nina Lex -- Empathy in Education: the Successful Teacher / Giovanna Costantini -- Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological Journey / Irina Ionita -- Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology Clinic / Judy Rollins -- Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles’ Ajax / Christopher J. Staley -- Empathy in Experimental Narratives / Barış Mete -- On the Bearability of Others-Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its Justification / Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar -- The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an Exploration / Paulus Pimomo -- Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of ‘Empathic Unsettlement’ / Rosa E. Belvedresi -- Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global Justice / Johannes Rohbeck -- Back Matter -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Authors.