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Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-101478025018

ISBN-139781478025016

eBay Product ID (ePID)2329419908

Product Key Features

Number of Pages136 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOther Side of Empathy

Publication Year2023

SubjectMovements / Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorJade E. Davis

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-048185

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsPowerful, provocative, and urgent, The Other Side of Empathy re-negotiates popular liberal views that frame empathy as an all-encompassing, versatile panacea, capable of bridging social and cultural gaps. Davis contests empathy's seemingly unquestionable value and inherent potential as a critical tool in affect and cultural studies. In particular, she examines how empathetic encounters work when racial biases are involved., In this deeply original and thoughtful book, Jade E. Davis takes affect theory into new territory. Her writing makes the reader uncomfortable and curious at the same time, which is rare and wonderful. Dispelling many myths about empathy while executing an innovative stylistic and theoretical model, Davis has written a radical book that will spark conversation, debate, and new directions for research.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal152.41

Table Of ContentPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii By way of an introduction 1 1. The other side of human zoos? 15 2. We have names 35 3. New media and emerging technology will kill us all, though 65 Some end thoughts 93 Notes 99 Bibliography 109 Me, myself, and you: A biography 117 Index

SynopsisIn The Other Side of Empathy , Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and victimization, arguing that these histories taint the whole concept of empathy. Drawing on digital archives of photographs, memoirs, newspapers, interviews, and advertisements regarding nineteenth-century ethnographic museums and human zoos, Davis shows how empathetic responses erase culpabilities from those institutions that commodify difference. She also contends that empathy's mediation through digital technology cannot lead to more ethical actions, as technology only connects representations of people rather than the people themselves. In empathy's place, Davis proposes mutual recognition as a way to see and experience others beyond colonial modes of empathy. Davis illustrates that moving beyond empathy allows for a more nuanced understanding of the colonial past and its ongoing impact while providing for a more meaningful affective engagement with the world., Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool, proposing mutual recognition as a way to create a more meaningful affective engagement with the world.

LC Classification NumberBF575.E55D36 2023