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

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...

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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)
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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.