166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: Why Now Empathy? 2. Easy Empathy 3. Difficult Empathy 4. The Social Conditions of Empathy 5. Empathy with the Enemy 6. Critical Empathy 7. Conclusion
Biography
Eric Leake is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, where he is Director of the Master’s Program in Rhetoric and Composition.
