Empathy: Emotional, Ethical and Epistemological Narratives

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37676-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Empathy is sometimes –for unfathomable reasons– a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is indeed a problem open to discussion. It can be particularly problematic since, for one thing, it is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. It is the emotion essential to bridging the gap between subjects – to making a community. Some answers in this volume have their place of reference in the welcoming chambers of Mansfield College, at the University of Oxford (UK). The Empathy Project held its third Global Meeting within the premises of ye olde constituent college at Mansfield Road from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th of July 2016. This volume looks for the common ground between both the results of the conducted research and our experiences: Digital Media ideas on the subject worked just fine elbow to elbow with those proposed by fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care; and Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy got along quite well with the lines of inquiry of Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance.

Contributors are Victoria Aizkalna, Rosa Elena Belvedresi, Giovanna Costantini, Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar, Irina Ionita, Nina Lex, Gerardo López Sastre, Baris Mete, Paulus Pimomo, Johannes Rohbeck, Judy Rollins, Josefa Ros Velasco and Christopher J. Staley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutiérrez Aguilar, Ricardo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: The Joyful Páthos from Oxford

Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar

2 In Search of Empathy in Prehistoric Times: Evolution and Revolution

Josefa Ros Velasco

3 Empathy or Compassion? On Rational Understanding of Emotional Suffering

Victoria Aizkalna

4 From Psychology to Morality: Sympathy, Imagination and Reason in Hume’s Moral Philosophy

Gerardo López Sastre

5 Existence as a Matter of Co-existence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral Psychology of pitié

Nina Lex

6 Empathy in Education: the Successful Teacher

Giovanna Costantini

7 Anti-Utilitarian Empathy: an Ethical and Epistemological Journey

Irina Ionita

8 Empathetic Art in a Paediatric Oncology Clinic

Judy Rollins

9 Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles’ Ajax

Christopher J. Staley

10 Empathy in Experimental Narratives

Baris Mete

11 On the Bearability of Others Being: Bartleby, Expression and Its Justification

Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar

12 The Basis for Responsibility in Empathy: an Exploration

Paulus Pimomo

13 Empathy and Historical Understanding: a Reappraisal of ‘Empathic Unsettlement’

Rosa E. Belvedresi

14 Empathy with Future Generations? A Historical Approach to Global Justice

Johannes Rohbeck

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar (MA in Philosophy, 2006; National Prize in Philosophy, 2008; MA in Teachers Training, 2008) is Assistant Professor and Researcher in Philosophy at the Logic and Theoretical Philosophy Department (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He holds a PhD (2014) with an European Mention awarded by U.N.E.D. (Spain). He received the degree of Doktor der Philosophie from the Technische Universität zu Berlin (2014) as well. Amongst his various published materials, Deuda y legado en la filosofía de la Historia de Schiller [Debt and Legacy in Schiller’s Philosophy of History] (Herder, 2018) is his latest monograph.