Empathy has been rediscovered and reshaped since the year 2000 as a concept with great interdisciplinary potential in neuroscience, socio-biology, psychology and the humanities. It is generally acknowledged as a vital emotional and social resource in a world faced with the challenges of globalization and the limitations of an endangered ecosystem. Empathy might be a unique human endowment, but we still know very little about the circumstances under which it is aroused or blocked. With its focus on the 'limits of empathy', this book therefore analyzes not only the cultural contexts that account for the generating and fostering of empathy, but also focuses on its limits and the mechanisms that lead to its blocking. Complementary to the current research in the natural sciences that celebrates the quintessential human capacity for empathy, this study will look more closely into the precarious status of empathy, its unreliability and intentional withdrawal.
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| Introduction |
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Part I The Politics of Empathy |
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1 The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy |
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2 Unequal Equals: How Politics Can Block Empathy |
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3 Empathy, Ethics, and Politics in Holocaust Historiography |
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Part II Changes in Historical Sensibility |
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4 Empathy in the Theater of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart |
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5 From Sympathy to Empathy: Trajectories of Rights in the Twentieth Century |
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6 The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich |
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7 Looking Away in Nazi Germany |
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8 Empathy for Empathy's Sake: Aesthetics and Everyday Empathic Sadism |
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9 The Aesth-ethics of Empathy: Bakhtin and the Return to Self as Ethical Act |
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10 `For ye know the Heart of the Stranger': Empathy, Memory, and the Biblical Ideal of a `Decent Society' |
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11 Diaspora, Art, and Empathy |
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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
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