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Rereading Empathy (Hardcover)
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Rereading Empathy (Hardcover)
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Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist
political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous
public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize
more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social
inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim
goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to
empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what does
it offer that older models of solidarity don't? Why empathy-and why
now? Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses
to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding
economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety
of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to
illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable-and to query
alternative models of building collective futures.
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