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...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...

... that despite the tenacity of male governance, female in-laws wield tremendous power in the rites that widows deem discriminatory. While interlocutors in this essay stress the near impossibility of a widow escaping the tentacles of authority and the empathy deficit stemming from it, others who have resisted...

...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...

... of a 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...

... of the process through which responsibility develops in order to assess its underlying psychological assumptions. I argue that whereas Butler interprets the scene of infant-adult address in terms of relationality, empathy, and responsiveness, my own reading suggests that this interpretation risks obscuring...

..., a critical as well as an emotional understanding that does not rely on the creation of any form of individual subjectivity. [email protected] © 2025 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2025 disembodied experience Dongducheon camp town empathy...

... and solidarity to the girl, whom she instead cut off and referred to another female counselor.3 Thus the (first) origin of “me, too,” 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...

..., then, that moves the capitalist machine is not at odds with the moral sentiments—empathy, sympathy, feeling for others—but inextricably bound together with them. This morality—this capacity for a social life of emotions—is portrayed...

...- tive critical tool that has similarities to empathy within recent historical research. That anthropomorphism may have its place for rethinking human difference is the motivating idea in Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman’s collection...

... that, like Morris, seemed to “belon[g] to no segment of humanity” (33). Discovering affective affinities akin to her own alienated disposition, Morris comes to an empathy that endows the African with an ostensible interiority, but only because the interiority that Morris projects now has use value for her...

... is to avoid splitting the maternal and paternal, if we may momentarily work within the jargon of paternal=observation, maternal=empathy. The feminist-inspired recognition of independent maternal subjectivity aims precisely...

... to suggest, may account for the body of scholars who have commented on the text’s bluntness at precisely this moment of metaphorical obfuscation. 18 Pan’s passage through a stage of empathy with the feminine experience does not discredit his position of patriarchal power: he begins the story...

... 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...

... important point regarding debt is that effective altruism does not proceed from guilt, nor even from empathy: “Effective altruists don’t see a lot of point in feeling guilty. They prefer to focus on the good they are doing,” Singer says ( Most viii); or again: “[E]ffective altruism does not require...

... an affect that is usually feminized and sometimes also racialized as a particularly white capacity for empathy or as “devotion” from people of color to their white charges. As Schaffer elaborates, separating care-as-emotion from care-as-practice allows us to see care as work, and also as a performance...

... Lacan calls the order of “ bon sentiments ” ( . . . or Worse 204 ) and Zeavin pinpoints as “empathy” ( Distance 229 ). Upheld “as an eternal ethical value” especially associated with the perfectly all-knowing and ever understanding figure of the therapist, empathy is exactly the wrong goal because...

... feet with each other” (34); and empathy seems to be one way in which we might, together, find our feet. If we assume lived experience to end at the skin’s surface, then empathy—by doctors...

... to the divine in the sense used by Benjamin in his seminal essay on violence and indexes—if it doesn’t perform—a divine violence that will stop all kinds of earthly violence. 5 If the sorrow and tears of mothers in the face of loss erase any difference and address the sympathy and empathy...

... something that indicates any empathy for Islamicate cultures, it is interpreted as a "defense of Islam," thereby bringing my feminist credentials under scrutiny. The current division between Islam and anti-Islam demands contrary speaking positions: I must either speak as a Muslim woman or as a secular, anti...

... alienation-their normatively "broken" personalities-Millett appeals to all women through a more distanced stance of empathy, an awareness of all women's potential vulnerability to the worst "core" manifestations of physical violence. By a logic similar to Millett's, the eminent feminist historian Linda...