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Empathy as Dialogue in Theatre and Performance

Autor: Lindsay B. Cummings

Número de Páginas: 226

Empathy has provoked equal measures of excitement and controversy in recent years. For some, empathy is crucial to understanding others, helping us bridge social and cultural differences. For others, empathy is nothing but a misguided assumption of access to the minds of others. In this book, Cummings argues that empathy comes in many forms, some helpful to understanding others and some detrimental. Tracing empathy’s genealogy through aesthetic theory, philosophy, psychology, and performance theory, Cummings illustrates how theatre artists and scholars have often overlooked the dynamic potential of empathy by focusing on its more “monologic” forms, in which spectators either project their point of view onto characters or passively identify with them. This book therefore explores how empathy is most effective when it functions as a dialogue, along with how theatre and performance can utilise the live, emergent exchange between bodies in space to encourage more dynamic, dialogic encounters between performers and audience.

Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Número de Páginas: 334

Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, edited by Efraim Podoksik, is a collaborative project by leading scholars in German studies that examines the practices of theorising and researching in the humanities as pursued by German thinkers and scholars during the long nineteenth century, and the relevance of those practices for the humanities today. Each chapter focuses on a particular branch of the humanities, such as philosophy, history, classical philology, theology, or history of art. The volume both offers a broad overview of the history of German humanities and examines an array of particular cases that illustrate their inner dilemmas, ranging from Ranke’s engagement with the world of poetry to Max Weber’s appropriation of the notion of causality.

Literature and Moral Feeling

Autor: Patrick Colm Hogan

Número de Páginas: 317

This original interdisciplinary study argues that understanding how narrative works in literature is crucial to understanding moral thought.

Cannons and Codes

Autor: Alison L. Lacroix , Jonathan S. Masur , Martha Craven Nussbaum , Laura M. Weinrib

Número de Páginas: 345

This edited volume on war in law and literature addresses the many ways in which war affects human society and the many groups of people whose lives are affected by war. The essays, by preeminent scholars, discuss the ways in which literary works can shed light on legal thinking about war, and how a deep understanding of law can lead to interpretive insights on literary works. Some concern the lives of soldiers; others focus on civilians living in war zones, who are caught up in the conflict; still others address themselves to the home front, far from the theatre of war. By collecting such diverse perspectives, with contributions from preeminent scholars of philosophy, literature, and law, this volume aims to show how literature has reflected the totalizing nature of war and the ways in which it distorts law across domains.

Aesthetic Science

Autor: Arthur P. Shimamura , Stephen E. Palmer

Número de Páginas: 421

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an 'aesthetic' experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye of the beholder? This book addresses the nature of aesthetic experience from the perspectives of philosophy psychology and neuroscience.

Handbook of Sandplay Therapy

Autor: Barbara A. Turner

Número de Páginas: 604

This is the revised edition of the classic Handbook of Sandplay Therapy, now with color photos embedded in the text and a linkable index. The choice to publish the revised edition as an eBook was determined by the importance of the photos. They appear here in full color in the text where they are discussed, a feature that was not possible in the print edition. Additionally, each case or vignette is available at the end of the book for review of the client biography and for tracking the process of each case. Another wonderful feature of this format is the linking between the Table of Contents, the Index, and client case material. It is all at our fingertips. Used by mental health clinicians around the world, Turner's Handbook is now in six languages.

Empathy Imperiled

Autor: Gary Olson

Número de Páginas: 116

The most critical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy’s revolutionary potential and today’s empathically-impaired society is the interaction between the brain and our dominant political culture. The evolutionary process has given rise to a hard-wired neural system in the primal brain and particularly in the human brain. This book argues that the crucial missing piece in this conversation is the failure to identify and explain the dynamic relationship between an empathy gap and the hegemonic influence of neoliberal capitalism, through the analysis of the college classroom, the neoliberal state, media, film and photo images, marketing of products, militarization, mass culture and government policy. This book will contribute to an empirically grounded dissent from capitalism’s narrative about human nature. Empathy is putting oneself in another’s emotional and cognitive shoes and then acting in a deliberate, appropriate manner. Perhaps counter-intuitively, it requires self-empathy because we’re all products of an empathy-anesthetizing culture. The approach in this book affirms a scientific basis for acting with empathy, and it addresses how this can help inform ...

Christ in Postmodern Philosophy

Autor: Frederiek Depoortere

Número de Páginas: 168

An investigation into the Christological ideas of three contemporary thinkers: Slavoj Žižek, Gianni Vattimo and René Girard.

Naturalism and Constructivism in Metaethics

Autor: Sofia Bonicalzi , Leonardo Caffo , Mattia Sorgon

Número de Páginas: 213

In this collection of essays, several authors, belonging to different generations and philosophical traditions, discuss ample ethical and metaethical issues together with their relations to questions of applied ethics. The volume provides a wide account of some of the main topics in these fields, thus dealing with nearly everything that human beings hold as valuable. Expert scholars and young researchers contribute to this virtual symposium, reframing the current philosophical debates about the definition and the history of the concept of Naturalism, the different declinations of Kantian Constructivism, the functioning of Rational Choice Theory, the complex role played by Neuroscience in redefining the contours of ethical theories and bioethics, the puzzles of Deontic Logic, and the bases of Animal Ethics. Divided into three sections, presented by comprehensive introductions by Sofia Bonicalzi, Leonardo Caffo and Mattia Sorgon, the present collection includes contributions by Martina Belmonte, Michele Borri, Luciana Ceri, Guglielmo Feis, Matteo Grasso, Andrea Lavazza, Sarah Songhorian, and Francesca Vitale. Each author develops a distinctive and independent position, while...

The Mindful Brain

Autor: Daniel J. Siegel

Número de Páginas: 410

A new framework for maintaining mental health and well-being. From the author of the internationally-acclaimed best-selling text The Developing Mind, and esteemed leader and educator in the field of mental health, comes the first book ever to integrate neuroscience research with the ancient art of mindfulness. The result is a groundbreaking approach to not simply mental health, but life in general, which shows readers how personal awareness and attunement can actually stimulate emotional circuits in the brain, leading to a host of physiological benefits, including greater well-being, resilience, emotional balance, and improved cardiac and immune function. For clinicians and laypeople alike, Siegel’s illuminating discussions of the power of the focused mind provide a wealth of ideas that can transform our lives and deepen our connections with others, and with ourselves.

Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

Autor: Bryan Turner

Número de Páginas: 731

In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the debate over the globalization...

The New Science of Momentum

Autor: Don Yaeger , Bernie Banks

Número de Páginas: 282

Learn how to capture—and keep—the awesome power of momentum! Most leaders believe in momentum—a phenomenon that's easy to perceive but difficult to define. Which is why so few have been able to explain how to spark it, sustain it, or steer it to unbridled success. Until now. In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Don Yaeger and leadership expert Bernie Banks uncover what it takes to turn a single moment into unstoppable momentum. Drawing from eight years of research, over 250 interviews, and thousands of survey responses, they reveal a proven model for building momentum across sports, business, politics, and the military. You'll learn how to: Recognize the early spark of momentum and act on it. Build a culture that sustains momentum over time. Apply a research-backed model used by top leaders. Reignite momentum when it begins to fade. Whether you're leading a team or an entire organization, this book will help you harness momentum in every aspect of an enterprise—from team building to recruitment to communications—and make it last.

Sandplay and Storytelling

Autor: Barbara A. Turner

Número de Páginas: 250

Now in English and Chinese, Sandplay and Storytelling is being used by school counselors around the globe to help children with personality integration, emotional regulation, and learning. Using this documented evidence that engaging children in Jungian Sandplay and imaginative storytelling, more educational programs are focusing on the role of the childs imagination in academic performance. Written by child specialists, it makes a solid argument for the necessary consideration of the unconscious and the inner world of the individual child in learning and advocates that curriculum design for children must include both imaginative therapeutic play and active attention to childrens emotional needs. Educators, psychotherapists, and concerned parents alike will find this book informative and useful.

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Autor: Bonnie Badenoch

Número de Páginas: 328

How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world. Images and sounds of war, natural disasters, and human-made devastation explicitly surround us and implicitly leave their imprint in our muscles, our belly and heart, our nervous systems, and the brains in our skulls. We each experience more digital data than we are capable of processing in a day, and this is leading to a loss of empathy and human contact. This loss of leisurely, sustained, face-to-face connection is making true presence a rare experience for many of us, and is neurally ingraining fast pace and split attention as the norm. Yet despite all of this, the ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to effective clinical treatment of trauma and indeed to all of therapeutic practice. It is our challenge to remain present within our culture, Badenoch argues, no matter how difficult this might be. She makes the case that we are built to seek out, enter, and sustain warm relationships, all this connection will allow us to support the emergence of a humane world. In this book, Bonnie Badenoch, a gifted translator of neuroscientific concepts into human terms, offers readers brain- and body-based...

Las neuronas espejo

Autor: Marco, Iacoboni

Número de Páginas: 273

Durante mucho tiempo la ciencia intentó sin éxito explicar la extraordinaria capacidad humana de comprender lo que los otros hacen y sienten, de entender las intenciones de los demás y reaccionar de manera adecuada a los actos ajenos. El descubrimiento de las neuronas espejo inició una revolución en nuestra comprensión del modo en que al interactuar con los demás usamos el cuerpo -los gestos, las expresiones, las posturas corporales- para comunicar nuestras intenciones y nuestros sentimientos. Es precisamente gracias a las neuronas espejo que se puede crear un puente entre uno y los otros y volver así posible el desarrollo de la cultura y de la sociedad.

Practicing Empathy

Autor: Mark Fagiano

Número de Páginas: 257

There is widespread disagreement over what constitutes an experience of empathy. In this study of its value and moral features, Mark Fagiano acknowledges the ambiguity surrounding the term and offers a unified theory of empathy that includes rival definitions. His historical account of the multiple meanings of empathy lays the groundwork for a new philosophical theory. Based on relations, it resolves the problem of conflicting definitions of empathy by distinguishing between the three kinds of empathy: the relations of feeling into, feeling with, and feeling for, each of which has been defined historically as a type of empathy. Fagiano's unique focus on relations, on the modes and manner by which we are connected with things and with people, reveals a transactional account of empathy that can be applied to a variety of different contexts and social circumstances. Grounded in the philosophical tradition of American Pragmatism, Fagiano's approach demonstrates the practical benefits of adopting a broad and pluralistic understanding of empathy as both an idea and a practice. His pragmatic and contextualist philosophy of empathy provides a valuable starting point for answering some of...

The Empathic Brain

Autor: Christian Keysers

Número de Páginas: 248

The discovery of mirror neurons has caused an unparalleled wave of excitement amongst scientists. The Empathic Brain makes you share this excitement. Its vivid and personal descriptions of key experiments make it a captivating and refreshing read. Through intellectually rigorous but powerfully accessible prose, Prof. Christian Keysers makes us realize just how deeply this discovery changes our understanding of human nature. You will start looking at yourselves differently - no longer as mere individual but as a deeply interconnected, social mind.

Political Psychology

Autor: David Patrick Houghton

Número de Páginas: 341

What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup---beliefs, values, and so on---of those individuals? This is perhaps the leading division within the psychological study of politics today. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases, 2nd edition, provides a concise, readable, and conceptually organized introduction to the topic of political psychology by examining this very question. Using this situationism--dispositionism framework—which roughly parallels the concerns of social and cognitive psychology—this book focuses on such key explanatory mechanisms as behaviorism, obedience, personality, groupthink, cognition, affect, emotion, and neuroscience to explore topics ranging from voting behavior and racism to terrorism and international relations. The new edition includes a new chapter on the psychology of the media and communication. Houghton has also updated the text to analyze recent political events such as the 2012 election, and to include up-and-coming research in the areas of neuroscience, behavioral economics, and more. Houghton's clear and engaging examples directly challenge...

Collective Illusions

Autor: Todd Rose

Número de Páginas: 247

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and social psychology research, an acclaimed author demonstrates how so much of our thinking is informed by false assumptions—making us dangerously mistrustful as a society and needlessly unhappy as individuals. The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in society. Todd Rose believes that as human beings, we continually act against our own best interests because our brains misunderstand what others believe. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for transplants; from racial segregation to the perceived “electability” of women in politics; from bottled water to “cancel culture,” we routinely copy others, lie about what we believe, cling to tribes, and silence people. The question is, Why do we keep believing the lies and hurting ourselves? Todd Rose proves that the answer is hard-wired in our DNA: our brains are more socially dependent than we realize or dare to accept. Most of us would rather be fully in sync with the social norms of our respective groups than be true...

Secretos de tu cerebro

Autor: Gemma Sala Grau , Alexia De La Morena

Número de Páginas: 207

Prólogo de Pere Estupinyà ¿Te gustaría aprender a desarrollar tu talento, estimular tu creatividad o cambiar la estructura de tu cerebro a través de la neuroplasticidad? ¿Eres consciente de que puedes gestionar mejor tus pensamientos y tus emociones para ser más feliz y tener una vida más equilibrada? ¿Sabías que ser positivo es bueno para la salud del cerebro? Este ameno libro te permitirá conocer algunas de las cuestiones esenciales sobre el cerebro y la felicidad. Te invita a descubrir y desvelar incógnitas sobre el comportamiento humano que te ayudarán a conocerte mejor y empoderarte para tu autogestión. Incluye numerosas técnicas con dinámicas para reducir el estrés, mantener una actitud positiva, desconectar, ser más creativo, cambiar hábitos, conseguir transformarse y mantener una vida equilibrada. Abunda en neurotips tanto para el coach, el profesional de RR.HH., el psicólogo o el directivo, como para cualquier persona interesada en su crecimiento personal y con curiosidad para descubrir sus propios recursos de autogestión. ¡En definitiva, conocer más sobre el cerebro te hace más libre!

Anatomía de la Teoría Mimética. Aportaciones a la filosofía política

Autor: Jorge Federico Márquez Muñoz , Andrea Montserrat Palacios Soto , Arturo Cárdenas Ureña

Número de Páginas: 126

Desde la perspectiva de la teoría girardiana, la emergencia de la cultura supone el desenvolvimiento de formas miméticas de control de la violencia miméticamente engendrada. Una hipótesis tan ambiciosa por supuesto ha enfrentado no solo el escepticismo de muchos sino también impuso dificultades relativas a la exposición misma de la teoría, lo que ha generado constantes malentendidos acerca de la teoría mimética. El propio Girard lo reconoció: “Seguramente, en alguna medida, soy responsable de esta situación. Tengo la impresión de que jamás logré exponer mi intuición en un orden más lógico, más didáctico, más comprensible”.[1] Nuestra aportación en esta obra consta de dos partes: la primera, esclarecemos a fondo los dos conceptos de la Teoría Mimética: la mímesis y el sacrificio. Hacemos énfasis en la utilidad de dichos conceptos para el análisis político. Esta aportación puede apreciarse, con un comentario que Joao César de Castro recoge del propio Girard: “Tengo la impresión de que jamás logré exponer mi intuición en un orden más lógico, más didáctico, más comprensible”.[2] La segunda aportación es el análisis comparado de la obra...

Contra la empatía

Autor: Paul Bloom

Número de Páginas: 251

En un mundo dividido, la empatía no es la solución: es el problema. Es habitual que pensemos que nuestra capacidad de experimentar el sufrimiento de los otros es una especie de fuente de nuestra bondad; sin embargo, no hay nada más equivocado. Paul Bloom, maestro de la universidad de Yale, revela que la empatía es uno de los principales motores de la inequidad y la inmoralidad en la sociedad. Lejos de ayudarnos a mejorar nuestras relaciones, la empatía es una emoción caprichosa e irracional que apela a nuestros propios prejuicios e, irónicamente, nos lleva con frecuencia a la crueldad. Bloom, basando sus argumentos en investigaciones científicas, ejemplifica que algunas de las peores decisiones tomadas por individuos y naciones -a quién dar dinero, cómo responder al cambio climático, a quién meter en prisión- son impulsadas normalmente por honestas, aunque desviadas, emociones. Con precisión y sabiduría, Contra la empatía evidencia cómo ésta distorsiona todos los aspectos de nuestra vida, desde la filantropía y la caridad, hasta el sistema de justicia; desde la sanidad y la educación, hasta la paternidad y el matrimonio. Sin empatía, insiste Bloom, nuestras...

Ciencia y política, una aventura vital

Autor: César Colino , Jaime Ferri Durá , Osé A. Olmeda , Paloma Román Marugán , Josefa Rubio Lara

Número de Páginas: 622

Ramón Cotarelo, Catedrático emérito de Ciencia Política en la UNED, ha sido profesor en las universidades de Oviedo y Complutense, es uno de los politólogos españoles más notables de nuestro tiempo. En su extensa obra, ha afrontado cuestiones fundamentales de la dinámica política contemporánea. Sus libros sobre: las teorías políticas; la metodología de la ciencia política; los partidos políticos; el Estado de Bienestar; la política comparada e internacional; el análisis de las instituciones y el cambio político en España; la comunicación política, el poder de los medios y las repercusiones de Internet en la vida política así como en la democracia contemporánea; la iconografía política y las relaciones entre arte y política; las izquierdas y sus crisis, están escritos con pasión y un estilo erudito, argumentalmente riguroso y elegante. Polemista temible, Cotarelo destaca como intelectual ético, comprometido, independiente y siempre atento a su tiempo, indómito individualista libertario, conserva vivo el espíritu enragè del año 1968 en el que se licenció en ciencias políticas. Este libro homenaje reúne las contribuciones de relevantes...

espacio rizoma. homeopat’_a para la cultura local y sus redes

Autor: Jos’© Ram’_n Insa Alba

Número de Páginas: 285

La planificación (gestión) cultural de los últimos veinte años (vamos a redondear) ha evolucionado, de forma sutil, hacia la explotación de la cultura como una extensión del mercado. Se ha desmenuzado y se ha dividido en lotes (industrias culturales - economía de la cultura) para favorecer su producción, distribución y consumo, para respaldar un control muy bien argumentado desde narrativas técnicas y de método. A la par, desde la construcción capitalista de imaginarios, se la dignifica con "argumentos pib" para auparla a la categoría que necesitan quienes quieren entrar en el juego de esa modernidad difusa que reniega de su pasado.Es necesario que la cultura vuelva a contemplarse libre y liberadora, provocadora, crítica, comunitaria, viva, generadora, imprevisible, transitable, reactiva...

STORYTELLING PARA EL EXITO

Autor: Peter Guber

Número de Páginas: 206

Guber nos muestra como un buen storytelling, una buena historia acerca de una empresa, producto o persona puede ser la mejor herramienta para conseguir buenos resultados empresariales. Lleno de anécdotas reales muchas de ellas vividas en primera persona junto a celebridades del mundo del entretenimiento y la política, este valioso e inspirador libro ayudará a los lectores a desarrollar su propia historia llena de contenido para sus clientes o colegas.

El animal social

Autor: David Brooks

Número de Páginas: 359

N.°1 del New York Times. Una aventura intelectual conmovedora, un relato de logros y una defensa del progreso. Ésta es la historia de cómo se produce el éxito. Se cuenta a través de la vida de una pareja, Harold y Erica: cómo crecen, avanzan, retroceden, fracasan y triunfan. A partir de la gran cantidad de información que aporta sobre estos dos personajes, vívidamente descritos, Brooks ilustra un nuevo conocimiento fundamental de la naturaleza humana. Se ha producido una revolución científica, hemos aprendido más del cerebro humano en los últimos treinta años que en los trescientos anteriores. Resulta que la mente inconsciente es «la mayor parte» de la mente. Es el terreno de las emociones, las intuiciones, las tendencias, los deseos, las predisposiciones genéticas, los rasgos de la personalidad y las normas sociales, allí donde se forma el carácter y se toman las decisiones más importantes de la vida. Reseñas: «Provocador y fascinante... Brooks demuestra que lo que está más allá de nuestro control consciente es inmenso.» Philadelphia Enquirer « El animal social es autorizado, impresionantemente erudito y de gran alcance.» Newsweek

Hivemind

Autor: Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Número de Páginas: 265

Cavanagh brings you along on her journey through an exquisite collection of scholarly knowledge and empirical insight to ground both your mind and your gut. From zombies to bees, moral panics to conspiracy theories, Hivemind mixes the dark with the light to help readers find a path through a very destabilizing present' - danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens 'This fascinating book guides us through the nuanced landscape of why we think and behave the way we do-online and off-and offers a much-needed vision for how we can find our way back from the edge' - Scott Barry Kaufman, Psychologist at Columbia University and co-author of Wired to Create 'Hivemind provides a fascinating tour of research that reveals our social nature, for good and for bad. Cavanagh is a natural teacher whose enthusiasm for psychology shines through on every page. Whether you're looking to have healthier technology habits, develop better relationships with others, or address societal challenges, this book will give you food for thought and wisdom to take action' - Kelly McGonigal, author of The Joy of Movement and The Willpower Instinct +++ Hivemind: A collective...

Seeing Justice

Autor: Mary Angela Bock

Número de Páginas: 305

A behind-the-scenes look at the struggles between visual journalists and officials over what the public sees--and therefore much of what the public knows--of the criminal justice system. In the contexts of crime, social justice, and the law, nothing in visual media is as it seems. In today's mediated social world, visual communication has shifted to a democratic sphere that has significantly changed the way we understand and use images as evidence. In Seeing Justice, Mary Angela Bock examines the way criminal justice in the US is presented in visual media by focusing on the grounded practices of visual journalists in relationship with law enforcement. Drawing upon extended interviews, participant observation, contemporary court cases, and critical discourse analysis, Bock provides a detailed examination of the way digitization is altering the relationships between media, consumers, and the criminal justice system. From tabloid coverage of the last public hanging in the US to Karen-shaming videos, from mug shots to perp walks, she focuses on the practical struggles between journalists, police, and court officials to control the way images influence their resulting narratives....

How Dogs Love Us

Autor: Gregory Berns

Número de Páginas: 271

A neuroscientist finally and definitively answers the age-old question: What is my dog thinking?

The Social Animal

Autor: David Brooks

Número de Páginas: 333

This is the happiest story you will ever read. It's about two people who led wonderfully fulfilling, successful lives. The odd thing was, they weren't born geniuses. They had no extraordinary physical or mental gifts. Nobody would have picked them out at a young age and said they were destined for greatness. How did they do it?

How to Get the Best Head

Autor: Anette Bloch Jespersen

Número de Páginas: 286

Have you had enough of being a slave of your emotions? If you want to be the master of your destiny, this is the manual for our times and for you—the essential guide to humanity. This book is accessible to everyone and anyone who dares to step outside the box to challenge who they are. An enjoyable, readable style with a constant source of ideas mixed with thought-provoking and challenging concepts. This book will take you across the ocean of science, religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, space, and time, through the study of the mind. It is a remarkable pioneering exploration of the mirror neuron. Filled with autobiographical personal anecdotes, How to Give the Best Head places the author under the microscope, exposing “Who am I?” You will also recognise yourself in these stories and gain insight into your own behaviour. It is an immensely inspiring book that will transform the way we view ourselves, others, the world, human nature, and our potential. “This book will change your life—an indispensable guide written through stories we can all relate to, a must-read” (Chris Burton, BA Sociology/Philosophy, LLB Law).

The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Autor: Donald R. Wehrs , Thomas Blake

Número de Páginas: 892

This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism, as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and aesthetics. Guiding readers to the variety of topics, themes, interdisciplinary dialogues, and sub-disciplinary specialties that the study of interplay between affect and texts has either inaugurated or revitalized, the handbook showcases and engages the diversity of scholarly topics, approaches, and projects that thinking of affect in relation to texts and related media open up or enable. These include (but are not limited to) investigations of what attention to affect brings to established methods of studying texts—in terms of period, genre, cultural contexts, rhetoric, and individual authorship.

A Moral Theory of Sports

Autor: Richard J. Severson

Número de Páginas: 211

The breadth of our moral experience is more extensive than has been believed over the past several millennia. There is more to morality than being honest and good, or aspiring to universal principles. In fact, in many ways the morality of our distant ancestors bears a remarkable resemblance to the moral experiences of modern athletes. In A Moral Theory of Sports, ethicist Richard J. Severson brings together stories from today’s sports world and the moral practices of hunter-gatherers to shed new light on both sports and morality. Guided by anthropologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and others, Severson discusses what the moral life actually looked like for hunter-gatherer bands in the late Pleistocene epoch and argues that the championing of group success that was the epitome of their morality is the epitome of modern sports, as well. With fascinating analogies and anecdotes from football, basketball, tennis, cycling, and more, A Moral Theory of Sports offers a unique interpretation of human nature and our love affair with sports.

Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Autor: Bonnie Badenoch

Número de Páginas: 379

This book, part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, brings interpersonal neurobiology into the counseling room, weaving the concepts of neurobiology into the ever-changing flow of therapy. Neuroscientific discoveries have begun to illuminate the workings of the active brain in intricate detail. In fact, sometimes it seems that in order to be a cutting-edge therapist, not only do you need knowledge of traditional psychotherapeutic models, but a solid understanding of the role the brain plays as well. But theory is never enough. You also need to know how to apply the theories to work with actual clients during sessions. In easy-to-understand prose, Being a Brain-Wise Therapist reviews the basic principles about brain structure, function, and development, and explains the neurobiological correlates of some familiar diagnostic categories. You will learn how to make theory come to life in the midst of clinical work, so that the principles of interpersonal neurobiology can be applied to a range of patients and issues, such as couples, teens, and children, and those dealing with depression, anxiety, and other disorders. Liberal use of exercises and case...

Ex Auditu - Volume 32

Autor: Klyne Snodgrass

Número de Páginas: 226

Introduction Klyne Snodgrass On Bringing Home the Bacons: Reflections on Science, Faith, and Scripture Iain Provan Response to Provan John Walton Paul and the Person: Perspectives from Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences Susan Grove Eastman Response to Eastman A. Andrew Das Evolutionary Psychology and Romans 5-7: The "Slavery to Sin" in Human Nature Paul Allen Response to Allen Christopher Lilley Multiverse: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives Gerald B. Cleaver Made as Mirrors: Biblical and Neuroscientific Reflections on Imaging God Joshua M. Moritz Response to Moritz Tyler Johnson Forming Identities in Grace: Imitatio and Habitus as Contemporary Categories for the Sciences of Mindfulness and Virtue Michael Spezio Knowing in Part: The Demands of Scientific and Religious Knowledge in Everyday Decisions, or "She Blinded Me With Science!" and Deciding Whether to Wear Checks with Stripes Johnny Wei-Bing Lin Response to Lin Linda M. Eastwood "A Rock of Offense": The Problem of Scripture in Science and Theology Hans Madueme Response to Madueme Matthew Maas Annotated Bibliography on Science and Religion Presenters and Respondents

Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2

Autor: Nidesh Lawtoo

Número de Páginas: 317

Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions as a via regia to a phantom ego. Rather than being the product of a solipsistic discovery, the unconscious turns out to have haunted philosophers, psychologists, and artists for a long time. This book proposes a genealogy of untimely philosophical physicians that goes from Plato to Nietzsche, Bernheim to Féré, Freud to Bataille, Arendt to Girard, affect theory to the neurosciences. In their company, Lawtoo promotes the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies by reevaluating the unconscious actions and reactions of homo mimeticus. As a new theory of mimesis emerges, Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious offers a searching diagnosis as to why the pathos of (new) media violence—from film to video games, police murders to the storming...

Shared Representations

Autor: Sukhvinder S. Obhi , Emily S. Cross

Número de Páginas: 699

A collection of cutting-edge contributions on the idea of shared representations - information sharing between the brains of those involved.

Learning Together

Autor: Michael J. Kaufman , Sherelyn R. Kaufman , Elizabeth C. Nelson

Número de Páginas: 297

This book makes a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary argument for investing in effective early childhood education programs, especially those that develop in children their proven natural capacity to construct knowledge by building meaningful relationships. Recent insights in the fields of law, policy, economics, pedagogy, and neuroscience demonstrate that these particular programs produce robust educational, social, and economic benefits for children and for the country. The book also provides legal and political strategies for achieving these proven benefits as well as pedagogical strategies for developing the most effective early childhood education programs. The book concludes by making visible the wonderful learning that can take place in an early education environment where teachers are afforded the professional judgment to encourage children to construct their own knowledge through indispensable learning relationships.

Purposeful Empathy

Autor: Anita Nowak

Número de Páginas: 276

Empathy has never been more important, yet we're living in an era of a massive empathy deficit. At the same time, workplace culture has changed dramatically. Leaders, who have already been stretched to the limit, are now being called on to create and nurture genuine connection, psychological safety, and well-being across their organizations--all while adapting to the values of a new generation that won't compromise on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As this book shows, human beings are wired to care, and we can become more empathic with practice. Empathy increases dopamine, reduces stress, boosts self-esteem, heightens the immune system, and enriches our relationships. Empathy also improves business key performance indicators. This means that leveraging empathy on purpose can lead to better health, happier and more productive workplaces, and a more meaningful life. That's why empathy is our superpower. Through inspiring stories; interviews with experts, including business leaders, neuroscientists, activists, social entrepreneurs, and spiritual leaders; a new model rooted in positive psychology and coaching; and self-development exercises at the end of each chapter, Purposeful...

Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Autor: Katja Liebal , Cornelia Müller , Simone Pika

Número de Páginas: 304

The aim of this volume is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a signuificant role.