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Some historical preliminaries -- Some conceptual preliminaries -- Empathy as simulation -- A priori and a posteriori empathy -- Re-enacting the thoughts of others -- Empathy and the emotions -- Empathy and ethics -- Empathy and aesthetics

What is empathy? -- The building blocks of empathy -- Why is empathy important? -- Why is empathy so difficult to achieve? -- Linking interpersonal and social empathy -- Tools for measuring and assessing empathy -- Appendix A: Research and statistical analysis on the relationship between interpersonal -- Empathy and social empathy -- Appendix B: Empathy assessment index -- Appendix C: Social empathy index -- Appendix D: Interpersonal and social empathy index -- Appendix E: Spanish translation of the empathy assessment index, the social empathy index -- And the interpersonal and social empathy index / by David Becerra and Maria del Rosario Silva -- Arciniega -- References -- Index

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal New Formations and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF:89/90.09.2016. ; This article questions the assumption that empathy is a positive, politically beneficial emotion through two examples of poetry about deaths with sensitive political dimensions. I begin by returning to the origins of 'empathy' in English, as written about by Vernon Lee in the earlytwentieth-century, to show how far the word has drifted from Lee's sense of it as an embodied aesthetic response to an artwork. Rob Halpern's book of poems Common Room refuses imaginative empathy with its subject, a dead Guantanamo Bay detainee, and yet, I show, surprisingly aligns with Lee's sense of empathy through the author's erotic and imaginative response to the man's autopsy report. What results in this revivification of Lee's empathy is a violation of the religious beliefs of the detainee. In contrast, Andrea Brady's poem 'Song for Florida 2' takes up a more contemporary sense of empathy in its focus upon the killing of the unarmed teen Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in 2012. Brady's poem presents several possibilities for empathising with Martin's mother - by imagining being her, or imagining similarly losing a son - but eventually draws back from this as a limit. Empathy here risks erasing the specificity of the racialized context which led to Martin's unjust death. The white poet's son cannot 'replace', even imaginatively, the black mother's son without effacing the difference which saw Martin targeted in the first place. Brady's poem, I argue, marks how empathy can violate through supplanting the grief and political context for that grief of the person to whom empathy is extended. What is needed instead of empathy is a commitment to political change.

Empathie ist zum Modethema avanciert. Besonders im Bereich des Designs und des Managements wird sie zunehmend als professionelle Strategie und gleichzeitig moralische Kompetenz positioniert. Macht Empathie durch Design unsere Arbeitswelt also zu einem besseren Ort? Und was heißt es, Empathie programmatisch im Unternehmen einzuführen? Eva Köppen zeigt die überraschenden Effekte auf, die mit der Einführung von Empathie-geleiteten Arbeitsweisen wie Design Thinking einhergehen. Nicht nur mehr Freiräume, auch Frust, Dissonanzen sowie neue Kontrollstrukturen und Disziplinierungsformen sind die Konsequenzen. Die Autorin denkt die beiden Traditionen der Arbeits- und Emotionssoziologie zusammen, um die Bedeutung von Empathie als eines hoch aktuellen und kontrovers diskutierten Konzepts zu untersuchen. Durch eine Interviewstudie in einem IT-Unternehmen wird offenbart, welche Folgen Empathie-Anforderungen für Mitarbeiter und die Organisation haben. Dabei wird das aktuelle, positiv aufgeladene Bild von Empathie kritisch hinterfragt und die ambivalente Komplexität des Konstrukts aufgezeigt.

1. Introduction : toward an integrated practice -- 2. An expanding philosophy -- 3. A theoretical examination of empathy and compassion -- 4. Objectivity : a timeworn antipathy to empathy -- 5. Against compassion : a quagmire for journalists -- 6. Historically intertwined : the narrative and empathy -- 7. The empathetic journalist in the twenty-first century -- 8. A model for cultivating a life of empathy and compassion -- 9. Research and reflection : fueling empathy -- 10. The moral imagination : reclaiming the call -- 11. Cultivating ethical relationships -- 12. Empathetic listening as a journalistic discipline -- 13. For the good of the soul.