Synopses & Reviews
The most critical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy's revolutionary potential and today's empathically-impaired society is the interaction between the brain and our dominant political culture. The evolutionary process has given rise to a hard-wired neural system in the primal brain and particularly in the human brain.
Synopsis
Empathy is putting oneself in another's emotional and cognitive shoes and then acting appropriately.
Table of Contents
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.