Rereading Empathy

Professor or Dr. Emily Johansen, Professor or Dr. Alissa G. Karl (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7685-6 (ISBN)

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Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what does it offer that older models of solidarity don’t? Why empathy—and why now?

Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable—and to query alternative models of building collective futures.

Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature (2014) and co-editor, with Alissa G. Karl, of Neoliberalism and the Novel (2016). Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Brockport, USA. She is author of Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Stein, Woolf and Nella Larsen (2009), and co-editor, with Emily Johansen, of Neoliberalism and the Novel (2016).

Introduction: Why Empathy? Why Now?
Emily Johansen (Texas A&M University, USA) and Alissa G. Karl (State University of New York, Brockport, USA)
1. Reading George Eliot in the #metoo Era
Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb (Houghton College, USA)
2. Putting Empathy to Work: Narrative and the Empathetic Entrepreneur
Emily Johansen (Texas A&M University, USA)
3. ‘You’ Can’t Feel My Pain: The Limits of Empathy in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Ralph Clare (Boise State University, USA)
4. Limits to Empathy: On the Motif of Failed Empathy in Julian Barnes
Peter Simonsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) and Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
5. Unsettling Empathy: Hassan Blasim, the Iraq War, and the Spectacle of The Corpse Exhibition
Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta, Canada)
6. Rachel Cusk’s Empathy Work
Alissa G. Karl (State University of New York, Brockport, USA)
7. Affective Possibilities Beyond Empathy
Kathryn Cai (Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow with PowerSwitch Action, USA)
8. Affective Misplacement and The Image City
Tate Shaw (State University of New York, Brockport, USA)
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Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5013-7685-3 / 1501376853
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7685-6 / 9781501376856
Zustand	Neuware