Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain

by Gary Olson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461461162
• ISBN13: 9781461461166
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"