Empathy and its Limits
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
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Empathy and its Limits Edited by
Aleida Assmann University of Konstanz, Germany
and
Ines Detmers University of Konstanz, Germany
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers 2016 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-55236-5 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-55955-8 ISBN 978-1-137-55237-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-55237-2 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Empathy and its limits / [edited by] Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany, Ines Detmers, University of Konstanz, Germany. pages cm 1. Empathy. 2. Caring. I. Assmann, Aleida, editor. BJ1475.E46 2015 152.4'1—dc23 2015021889 Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India.
Contents List of Figures
vii
Notes on Contributors
viii
Introduction Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers
1
Part I The Politics of Empathy 1
The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy Steven E. Aschheim
21
2
Unequal Equals: How Politics Can Block Empathy Shelley Berlowitz
38
3
Empathy, Ethics, and Politics in Holocaust Historiography Amos Goldberg
52
Part II Changes in Historical Sensibility 4
5
Empathy in the Theater of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart Ute Frevert From Sympathy to Empathy: Trajectories of Rights in the Twentieth Century Jay Winter
79
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6
The Management of Empathy in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche
115
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