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Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

Leake, Eric

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

General ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1032321717
ISBN13: 9781032321714
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 4 2023
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of individuals but as a product of the rhetorical situations, practices, cultures, and values in which we engage. Rather than identifying empathy as a cure-all, or jettisoning the concept altogether, the author acknowledges empathy's potential as well as its limitations by focusing on what makes empathy a hard and ultimately worthwhile practice. This nuanced and original study will interest scholars working at the intersection of rhetoric and composition with empathy, as well as those studying empathy in fields such as critical and cultural theory, politics, media analysis, social psychology, and the cognitive humanities.

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