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Empathy and its Limits

BookHardcover
EUR140,00

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-55236-5
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication townLondon
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date26/10/2015
Edition1st ed. 2016
Pages219 pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustrationsXI, 219 p.
Article no.1378267
CatalogsVLB
Data source no.33f3345283364426a7f4ea9116185cca
Product groupBU550
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Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Jan Assmann, University of Konstanz, GermanyShelley Berlowitz, University of Konstanz, GermanyFritz Breithaupt, Indiana University, USAUte Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, GermanyPeter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USAAmos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, JerusalemSophie Oliver, University of London, UKJacqueline Lo, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, AustraliaJay Winter, Yale University, USA

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