TY - BOOK AU - Breithaupt,Fritz AU - Hamilton,Andrew B.B. TI - The Dark Sides of Empathy SN - 9781501735608 AV - BF575.E55 U1 - 152.4/1 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Empathy KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Nurturing behavior KW - Social interaction KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology & Psychiatry KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions KW - bisacsh KW - German philosophy KW - conflict KW - desire to increase empathy KW - development of empathy KW - exploitation N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Self-Loss --; 2. Painting in Black and White --; 3. False Empathy, Filtered Empathy --; 4. Empathetic Sadism --; 5. Vampiristic Empathy --; Epilogue: Empathy between Morality and Aesthetics --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of over-identification and a desire to increase empathy. Even well-meaning compassion can have many unintended consequences, such as intensifying conflicts or exploiting others.Empathy plays a central part in a variety of highly problematic behaviors. From mere callousness to terrorism, exploitation to sadism, and emotional vampirism to stalking, empathy all too often motivates and promotes malicious acts. After tracing the development of empathy as an idea in German philosophy, Breithaupt looks at a wide-ranging series of case studies—from Stockholm syndrome to Angela Merkel's refugee policy and from novels of the romantic era to helicopter parents and murderous cheerleader moms—to uncover how narcissism, sadism, and dangerous celebrity obsessions alike find their roots in the quality that, arguably, most makes us human UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735608 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501735608 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501735608/original ER -