Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-32171-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 423 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of individuals but as a product of the rhetorical situations, practices, cultures, and values in which we engage. Rather than identifying empathy as a cure-all, or jettisoning the concept altogether, the author acknowledges empathy’s potential as well as its limitations by focusing on what makes empathy a hard and ultimately worthwhile practice. This nuanced and original study will interest scholars working at the intersection of rhetoric and composition with empathy, as well as those studying empathy in fields such as critical and cultural theory, politics, media analysis, social psychology, and the cognitive humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leake, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Why Now Empathy? 2. Easy Empathy 3. Difficult Empathy 4. The Social Conditions of Empathy 5. Empathy with the Enemy 6. Critical Empathy 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Leake is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, where he is Director of the Master’s Program in Rhetoric and Composition.