Abstract
In the public and political arenas, many have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy – be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable, or disappearing animal and plant species. Perhaps nowhere have these calls for empathy been more visible than in former US President Barack Obama’s warning that the United States is undergoing an “empathy deficit” which needs to be urgently solved. This chapter examines the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine, and create otherness, particularly in instances when the other may not be directly perceivable and indeed radically different from one’s self, such as in the case of a fictional character, an animal, or a robot. Otherness and the imagination are intrinsic to any debate on empathy. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
Dokumententyp: | Buchbeitrag |
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Fakultät: | Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 3 |
Fakultätsübergreifende Einrichtungen: | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) |
Themengebiete: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie
800 Literatur > 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft |
ISBN: | 978-1-032-03966-4; 978-1-003-18997-8; 978-1-032-01915-4 |
Ort: | London ; New York |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Dokumenten ID: | 121699 |
Datum der Veröffentlichung auf Open Access LMU: | 08. Okt. 2024 11:08 |
Letzte Änderungen: | 08. Okt. 2024 11:08 |