The Empathy Instinct
How to Create a More Civil Society
$39.67
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2017
Summary
‘If we hope to meet the moral test of our times, then I think we’re going to have to talk more about the “empathy deficit”. The ability to put ourselves in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world through somebody else’s eyes …’ Barack Obama
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, wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473637535 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473637538 |
| Author: | Peter Bazalgette |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 267g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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The Empathy Instinct should be required reading – Irish Examiner
The Empathy Instinct should be required reading for anybody - Irish Examiner
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 TimesAbout The Author
Peter Bazalgette
Peter Bazalgette was Chair of Arts Council England from 2013-2017. He also chaired the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. He was educated at Dulwich College and read Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge but escaped the law to spend most of his career working in television. He devised some of the biggest entertainment shows in recent TV history, such as Ready Steady Cook and Changing Rooms, and brought Big Brother to the UK. He now chairs ITV. His previous books include Billion Dollar Game and The Food Revolution (co-authored). In 2011 he was knighted for services to broadcasting.
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