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In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars,
genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in
the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate
need of greater empathy - be this with our neighbours, refugees,
war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant
species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions:
How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all,
to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we
perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects?
Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and
experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or,
instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible
differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to
understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our
everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of
"radical others" - others who are perceived as being dramatically
different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy
to understand difference, the book contends that the role of
empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local
and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice.
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