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Empathy
. Ed(S): Lux, Vanessa; Weigel, Sigrid
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Hardback. Editor(s): Lux, Vanessa; Weigel, Sigrid. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JMAF; JMB; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.
The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a number of these studies, the moral values and social attitudes underlying empathy in human perception and action are conceptualized ... Read more
This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.
The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a number of these studies, the moral values and social attitudes underlying empathy in human perception and action are conceptualized ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137512987
SKU
V9781137512987
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About . Ed(S): Lux, Vanessa; Weigel, Sigrid
Vanessa Lux is a research fellow at the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. From 2011 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in research projects on epigenetics and neuropsychoanalysis. She is a member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Sigrid Weigel is a research scholar and former ... Read more
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