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Empathy and its Limits

Empathy and its Limits

Description

This volume extends the theoretical scope of the important concept of empathy by analysing not only the cultural contexts that foster the generating of empathy, but in focusing also on the limits of pro-social feelings and the mechanisms that lead to its blocking.

Keywords

HistoryHistoriographySocial ScienceMedia StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialLiterary CriticismChildren's & Young Adult LiteraturePsychologyEmotionsLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication StudiesSociologyLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

2015Book

Author(s)Ines Detmers, Aleida Assmann

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781137552365

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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