Empathy Imperiled Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Olson, Gary (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 10
• Θέματα: Political science.; Political theory.; Neuropsychology.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Political Theory.

Empathy is putting oneself in another’s emotional and cognitive shoes and then acting appropriately.   The evolutionary process has given rise to a hard-wired neural system, described as “the most radical of human emotions, that equips us to connect with one another.  But this critical connection ha...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Good, Better and Dangerously Best Samaritans
• Retrospective: Moral Outrage or Moral Amnesia?
• Mirror Neurons, Evolution and Morality
• This Is Your Brain on Neoliberal Culture. Any questions?
• The Neoliberal State and the State of Empathy
• Corporations as Empathy Devoid Psychopaths
• Neuromarketing 101: Branding Empathy
• Militarism, Masculinity and Empathy
• The Empathetic Power of Images
• Cuban Medical Internationalism as the Model of Dangerous Empathy
• Making the World Safer for Loving Our Neighbors
• About the Author.