Author(s): Ines Detmers,Aleida Assmann
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 219
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Date Published: 2015-10-26
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 14.22mm
Publication City/Country: Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Illustrations: XI, 219 p.

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.