I Feel You The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy

Cris Beam, Susan Ericksen

eAudio - 2019

Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed "empathic marketing"-which may very well be a contradiction in terms. In I Feel You, Cris Beam carves through the noise with a revelatory exploration of how we perform empathy, how it is learned, what it can do-indeed, what empathy is in the first place. She takes us to the labs where the neural networks of compassion are being mapped, and the classrooms where children are being trained to see others' views. Beam visits c...ourtrooms and prisons, asking how empathy might transform our justice system. She travels to places wracked by oppression and genocide, where reconciliation seems impossible, to report on efforts to heal society's deepest wounds through human connection. And...

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Published
HighBridge
Language
English
Main Authors
Cris Beam, Susan Ericksen
Online Access
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Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size281 GB
Parts11
ISBN9781684417353
Release Date3/12/2019
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size281 GB
ISBN9781684417353
Release Date3/12/2019