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Empathy and its Limits

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Aleida Assmann

    1. University of Konstanz, Germany

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  2. Ines Detmers

    1. University of Konstanz, Germany

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers
      Pages 1-17

  3. The Politics of Empathy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy

      • Steven E. Aschheim
      Pages 21-37

    3. Unequal Equals: How Politics Can Block Empathy

      • Shelley Berlowitz
      Pages 38-51

    4. Empathy, Ethics, and Politics in Holocaust Historiography

      • Amos Goldberg
      Pages 52-76

  4. Changes in Historical Sensibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Empathy in the Theater of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart

      • Ute Frevert
      Pages 79-99

    3. From Sympathy to Empathy: Trajectories of Rights in the Twentieth Century

      • Jay Winter
      Pages 100-114

    4. The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich

      • Peter Fritzsche
      Pages 115-127

    5. Looking Away in Nazi Germany

      • Aleida Assmann
      Pages 128-148

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Konstanz, Germany

    Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers

About the editors

Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jan Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany Shelley Berlowitz, University of Konstanz, Germany Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USA Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Sophie Oliver, University of London, UK Jacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australia Jay Winter, Yale University, USA

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