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The dark sides of empathy
- Author
- Breithaupt, Fritz, 1967- author.
- Preferred Title
- Dunklen Seiten der Empathie. English
- Title
- The dark sides of empathy / Fritz Breithaupt ; translated by Andrew B.B. Hamilton.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. ©2019
- Description
- viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other contributors
- Hamilton, Andrew B. B., translator.
- Notes
- Originally published in German under the title: Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Self-loss
- Painting in black and white
- False empathy, filtered empathy
- Empathetic sadism
- Vampiristic empathy
- Epilogue: empathy between morality and aesthetics.
- Summary
- "Investigates the idea that empathy, often considered the basis for good actions, also motivates a wide range of terrible and cruel actions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subject headings
- Empathy. Social interaction. Interpersonal relations.
- ISBN
- 9781501721649 paperback 150172164X paperback