Rethinking Empathy through Literature
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"The essays in this volume expand and complicate our sense of what it means to empathize—with others or with animals, with objects or with letters on a page. Bringing scientific and literary arguments together, it treats empathy as a robust power capable of bringing harm as well as good." – Rae Greiner, Department of English, Indiana University, USA
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In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "feeling with" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. Les mer
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While literature has been central to discussions of empathy in divergent disciplines, the ways in which literature is often thought to relate to empathy can be simplistic and/or problematic. The basic yet popular postulation that reading literature necessarily produces empathy and pro-social moral behavior greatly underestimates the complexity of reading, literature, empathy, morality, and society. Even if empathy were a simple neurological process, we would still have to differentiate the many possible kinds of empathy in relation to different forms of art. All the complexities of literary and cultural studies have still to be brought to bear to truly understand the dynamics of literature and empathy.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 276
- ISBN
- 9781138547889
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"The essays in this volume expand and complicate our sense of what it means to empathize—with others or with animals, with objects or with letters on a page. Bringing scientific and literary arguments together, it treats empathy as a robust power capable of bringing harm as well as good." – Rae Greiner, Department of English, Indiana University, USA
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