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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. From Aristotle to Emotivism—and Back Again -- Morality in Contemporary Emotivist Culture -- The Aristotelian Tradition -- The Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality -- The Rationality of Tradition-Constituted Inquiry -- MacIntyre's Neo-Aristotelian Critique of Modern Liberalism -- Concluding Remarks -- After MacIntyre: The Philosophical Urgency of Overcoming Emotivism -- 2. Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Judgment -- Coming to Terms with Moral Judgment: The Challenge of Eichmann -- The Interrelation Between Thinking and Judgment -- Arendt on Emotions and Empathy -- 3. Scheler's Grounding of Ethics in Love -- Scheler's Program for a Material Ethics -- The Concept of Love in Scheler's Ethics -- Scheler's Inverted Kantianism -- Part Two -- 4. The Perception of the Moral -- Overcoming the Active-Passive Dichotomy of Cognition and Emotion -- Perception and the Role of Emotion in Ascribing "Import" -- The Moral Significance of Suspension of the Emotional Bond -- Love, Compassion, and Empathy -- 5. Emotions and Immorality -- Projection and Hatred in Anti-Semitism -- Fromm's Theory of Destructiveness -- The Origin of Hatred -- The Marginality of Hate -- Part Three -- 6. Empathy and Solidarity in Habermas's Discourse Ethics -- Characteristics of Postconventional Ethics -- Habermas's Discourse Ethics and Communicative Action -- Why Be Moral? -- Empathy and Solidarity in Discourse Ethics -- Habermas and the Place of Emotion in Moral Judgment -- 7. Morality, Emotions, and Gender -- The "Different Voice" of Carol Gilligan -- Implications for Moral Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Foreword -- II. The Essence of Acts of Empathy -- 1. The Method of the Investigation -- 2. Description of Empathy in Comparison with Other Acts -- 3. Discussion in Terms of Other Descriptions of Empathy—Especially That of Lipps—and Continuation of the Analysis -- 4. The Controversy Between the View of Idea and That of Actuality -- 5. Discussion in Terms of Genetic Theories of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness -- 6. Discussion in Terms of Scheler's Theory of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness -- 7. Münsterberg's Theory of the Experience of Foreign Consciousness -- III. The Constitution of the Psycho-Physical Individual -- 1. The Pure "I" -- 2. The Stream of Consciousness -- 3. The Soul -- 4. "I" and Living Body -- 5. Transition to the Foreign Individual -- IV. Empathy as the Understanding of Spiritual Persons -- 1. The Concept of the Spirit and of the Cultural Sciences [Geisteswissenschaften] -- 2. The Spiritual Subject -- 3. The Constitution of the Person in Emotional Experiences -- 4. The Givenness of the Foreign Person -- 5. Soul and Person -- 6. The Existence of the Spirit -- 7. Discussion in Terms of Dilthey -- 8. The Significance of Empathy for the Constitution of Our Own Person -- 9. The Question of the Spirit Being Based on the Physical Body -- Personal Biography -- Notes.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: In Which the Author Explains Who Rodrigo and the Professor Are, and What They Have Been Doing So Far -- Chapter 1. Empathy and False Empathy: The Problem with Liberalism -- Chapter 2. Legal Instrumentalism and the Rule of Law: A Blueprint for Reformers in Hard Times -- Chapter 3. Merit and Affirmative Action -- Chapter 4. American Apocalypse -- Chapter 5. Cosmopolitanism and Identity Politics -- Chapter 6. Citizenship: How Society Rejects the Very Persons It Most Needs -- Epilogue -- NOTES

ch. 1. Difference : the challenge to moral reflection -- ch. 2. Difference, empathy, and impartial reason -- ch. 3. Prejudice and cultural imagery -- ch. 4. Psychoanalytic feminism and dissident speech -- ch. 5. Dissident speech : figuration and the politicization of moral perception -- ch. 6. Empathic thought : responding morally to difference -- ch. 7. Empathic thought and the politics of rights.