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Roots and Collapse of Empathy Human nature at its best and at its worst

http://bks5.books.google.ro/books?id=uXBoAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy, then turns to the neurosocial support of empathic participation, and to the nature and nurture of good and ill. It raises questions about how abuse may invite vicious circles of re-enactment, and as to how ordinary people may come to commit torture and mass murders, such as the Auschwitz doctors and the sole terrorist attacking Norway on July 22, 2011. http://inapp.io/BgkgscWD

One Love, One Heart, One Destiny.

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She's a Mother, not a meat machine.

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even heaven can be heavy.

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351-365 - crysis

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Politics of Empathy Ethics, Solidarity, Recognition

http://bks0.books.google.ro/books?id=NRuwAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api The Politics of Empathy argues that empathy is a necessary condition for ethical subjectivity and the emergence of a more compassionate world. One of the reasons empathy is important is because it gives us a sense of what it is like to be someone else. However, to understand its ethical significance we need to look elsewhere. This book claims that empathy is ethically significant because, uniquely, it allows us to reflect critically on the nature of our own lives and sense of identity. More specifically, it allows us to reflect critically on the contingency, finitude and violence that define existence. It is argued that, without this critical reflection, a more ethical and democratic world cannot come into being. Our challenge today therefore is to establish the social and political conditions in which empathy can flourish. This will be a difficult task because powerful political and cultural forces are reinforcing the divisions between us rather than encouraging us to come together in a cosmopolitan community of mutual recognition and solidarity. However, despite these limits, there is hope for a brighter future. The book argues that this can only come about if the Left accepts its responsibility to articulate the contours of a new politics of internationalism and establish the foundations of a sustainable ethical community in which strangers will be accepted unconditionally. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, multiculturalism and international relations. http://inapp.io/Bgbx31uE

The Anthropology Of Empathy Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

http://bks7.books.google.ro/books?id=CGCCcGVcrVcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The variations described in this book do not necessarily preclude the possibility of shared existential, biological, and social influences that give empathy a distinctly human cast, but they do provide an important ethnographic lens through which to examine the possibilities and limits of empathy in any given community of practice. http://inapp.io/Bgbx31uF

Empathy And Healing Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

http://bks5.books.google.ro/books?id=7JYeVdx6j6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language. http://inapp.io/Bgbx31uD

Embers of Empathy

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Empathy matters not just because it makes us good people, but because it is good for us. It has the power to heal broken relationships, make us rethink our ambitions and priorities, erode our prejudices, improve the quality of our conversations, and create the bonds that make life worth living. Highly empathic people are innovative thinkers, emotionally intelligent and makers of social change, making empathy a hot topic today in psychology, the sciences and, increasingly, politics. This is the first book to offer practical advice on how to cultivate and practise empathy in everyday life, revealing the six habits of highly empathic people: 1. 'Nurture the dove not the serpent' by encouraging the gentle side of your nature; 2. 'Challenge prejudices and discover commonalities'; 3. 'Get into extreme sport' by diving into experiences; 4. 'Practice the art of conversation' and connect with others; 5. 'Travel in your armchair' and explore other minds and cultures; 6. 'Inspire mass action and social change.' Krznaric draws on insights from psychology, sociology, philosophy, history and literature to show how we can all enjoy the benefits of living with empathy.

Empathy in Education Engagement, Values and Achievement

http://bks3.books.google.ro/books?id=vVjrlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api Empathy in Education discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society. Using initial research involving interviews with teachers and student teachers in many different contexts, from nursery to sixth form lessons along side neuroscience, psychology and educational research, the author considers the intrinsic nature of affect and empathic human relationships in learning. At a time when politicians are calling for personalized learning and the promotion of good citizenship but are still advocating an intensive, rigid curriculum, in large, one size fits all, classes, this study highlights the inherent contradictions in rhetoric and practice. Cooper offers a detailed study in empathy in teaching and learning which sheds light on the learning process in intricate detail and gives balance to the strong emphasis on mechanistic learning, curriculum and cognition which has dominated the last twenty years of learning theory and sets a foundation for future research into affective and moral issues in learning. http://inapp.io/Bg2MXSAP

Strange Natures Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

http://bks4.books.google.ro/books?id=ujfx7uKp590C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api In Strange Natures , Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of natural categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues , Todd Haynes's Safe , and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities. http://inapp.io/Bg2MXSAM

Strange Natures Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

http://bks2.books.google.ro/books?id=sGXUMgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities. http://inapp.io/Bg2MXSAQ

The Science of Evil On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

http://bks9.books.google.ro/books?id=ojWMEU2lQCoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. InThe Science of EvilSimon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human cruelty. A true psychologist, however, he examines social and environmental factors that can erode empathy, including neglect and abuse. Based largely on Baron-Cohen's own research,The Science of Evilwill change the way we understand and treat human cruelty. http://inapp.io/Bg2MXSAI

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