Empathy and its Limits [Hardcover]

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.Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, JerusalemJan 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