On the Power and Limits of Empathy

This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish i...

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Main Author: Camassa, Manuel (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: What is Empathy?
  • 1: A Brief Historical Reconstruction
  • 2: The Way to a Definition
  • 3: A Taxonomy of Empathy
  • 4: Conclusions to Part 1
  • Part 2: Empathy and Morality
  • 5: Anti-Empathism
  • 6: The Bright Side of Empathy
  • 7: Conclusions.