Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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