...CAROLYN J. DEAN Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 carolyn j. dean is Professor of History at Brown University. She is currently working on a study tentatively entitled “Empathy,Suffering, and Indifference after the Holocaust.” Adorno...

... romanticized nature in opposition to human culture or as sympathetic by virtue of some forced familiarity to humans, the author traces the path by which “jellies” have exerted a unique agency throughout the history of their captivity and, in doing so, forges a politics of the alien, in which empathy does not...

...,” rested not in a ready identification, but in Burke’s pain and distress at her own inability to perform one. Burke went on to place the “power of empathy” as the linchpin of her “Me, too” campaign, but it bears emphasis that this is an empathy in a particular context and with a particular kind of...

... . Derrida Jacques . “ The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow) .” 1999 . Trans. Wills David . Critical Inquiry 28.2 ( Winter 2002 ): 369 – 418 . de Waal Frans . The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society . New York : Harmony , 2009 . ———. Primates and...

... . LaCapra, Dominick. History and Its Limits . Ithaca: Cornell up, 2009 . ———. Writing History, Writing Trauma . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins up, 2001 . Moyn, Samuel. “Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity.” History and Theory 45.3 ( 2006 ): 397 -415. Oliver, Kelly. Witnessing: Beyond...

..., maternal=empathy. The feminist-inspired recognition of independent maternal subjectivity aims precisely to reintegrate individuating and accommodating elements in the parental subject and likewise to create in...

... . Belman Jonathan Flanagan Mary . “ Designing Games to Foster Empathy .” Cognitive Technology 14.2 ( 2010 ): 5 – 15 . Berlant Lauren . Intimacy . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2000 . ———. “ Thinking about Feeling Historical .” Emotion, Space, and Society 1 ( 2008 ): 4 – 9...

.... The moral qualities of nonmarital sexual friendships—kindness, patience, fidelity, sacrifice, empathy, or humor—are disqualified from consideration by the putative biological criterion. This exclusionary criterion...

... the philosopher Kathleen Lennon in a related context, as the matter of how we “find our feet with each other” (34); and empathy seems to be one way in which we might, together, find our feet. If...

... In this way, we may see Arendt manifesting the very thing she is said by so many of her critics to lack: care. And when Arendt says the witness was “disappointed,” she may well exhibit precisely what Felman says she lacks: empathy for a man who was committed to speak and wanted to put Auschwitz...

... Deborah . “ The Virtues of Heartlessness: Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, and the Anesthetics of Empathy .” American Literary History 18 . 1 ( 2006 ): 86 – 101 . Phillips Adam . Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature . New York : Basic , 2002 . Posnock Ross...

... without subjects” or “wild thoughts” [ “Think” 118 ]), notes that Beckett’s animals are both “objects of thoughts and subjects of a different thinking: their very being in its often mute opaqueness provides the space for a different thinking, a thinking tempted by empathy for radical otherness, reluctant...

... are the sciences of life, in their current disciplinary manifestation, the proper place to discover life itself, life at work? Is there an idea—wrong or right, a hateful rant, a murderous act, self-sacrifice, senselessness, care and empathy, literary endeavor, or the cacophony of this particular...

... examine its gigantic detail, its contingencies, its idiosyncrasies. The close-up is always, at some level, an autonomous entity, a fragment, a “for -itself.” The close-up has inspired fascination, love, horror, empathy...

... empathy as we are caught by the close-up of her face and perhaps come to see—that is, imagine—an emptiness, a lostness of the mother’s. Certainly, this loss would be that of the daughter who speaks to us as an adult, as well as of her...

... emotionality, particularly against demonstrating one’s sadness over loss by weeping, I have been surprised to see grown men cry upon viewing this and similar virtual-end machinimas. I was likewise surprised to see how many men articulated their empathy and sadness, and even confessed to crying, in response to...

... recalcitrant sensations, was the laboring body’s double, the flip side of the coin of industrialization. Mourning and romance, empathy and affection, even “family time,” were not segmented into clock time, and in this sense...