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The Empathy Instinct
- Author
- Peter Bazalgette
- Narrator
- Peter Bazalgette
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 26 January 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defence of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap.
As the world's population expands, consuming the planet's finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war are on the move and as digital communications infinitely complicate our social interactions, we find our patience and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the antidote.
Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can make us better humans.
(P)2017 John Murray Press
Critics Review
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The Empathy Instinct should be required reading
Irish Examiner
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Sir Peter argues that politicians and the public must also be made to see that there are certain human aptitudes that can best be nurtured by an engagement with the arts and humanities
Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- Peter Bazalgette
- Narrator
- Peter Bazalgette
- Duration
- 8 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 January 2017
- ISBN
- 9781473648128
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Psychology: emotions, Science: general issues
Synopsis
Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the human brain. This is a new frontier that reveals a host of beneficial ideas for childcare, teens challenged by the internet, the justice system, decent healthcare, tackling racism and resolving conflicts. In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defence of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap. As the world's population expands, consuming the planet's finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war are on the move and as digital communications infinitely complicate our social interactions, we find our patience and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the antidote.Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can make us better humans.(P)2017 John Murray Press
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