The Fragility of Empathy After the Holocaust
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The Fragility of Empathy After the Holocaust

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When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to represen...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published January 1st 2005 by Cornell University Press (first published 2004)
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