Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

Eric Leake (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

156 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-32485-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-32485-6 / 1032324856
ISBN-13	978-1-032-32485-2 / 9781032324852
Zustand	Neuware