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Book SynopsisEmpathy 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.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from Oxford Ricardo Gutiérrez 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 López Sastre 5 Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral Psychology of pitié 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 Gutiérrez 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 Index of Subjects Index of Authors
