Category Archives: Empathy

on Judge Sotomayor

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Michael

I’ve been wanting to post on the whole (racist, sexist, peculiar) rhetoric surrounding Judge Sotomayor, but I doubt I really have anything to say that hasn’t already been said. Joseph Orosco has an interesting post about Sotomayor, empathy, and the … Continue reading →

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coca-cola and the banality of evil

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Michael

Awhile ago, Joseph Orosco asked on his blog, How responsible are people, qua consumers, for the crimes committed by corporations operating in a globalized world? This is an interesting question, one I’ve thought about quite often over the last 10 … Continue reading →

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Newcomb: “Totalized Compassion” (2007) and responses

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Michael

In “Totalized Compassion: The (Im)Possibilities for Acting out of Compassion in the Rhetoric of Hannah Arendt” (2007), Matthew J. Newcomb works with Hannah Arendt’s dismissal of compassion, “call[ing instead] for a more critical form of compassion” (107). He does so … Continue reading →

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584: Weekly Position Paper #4: Problematizing Empathy

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Michael

In Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks describes various times in her life when she does not want to be understood, or moments when empathy does not do enough. While not a central focus of her book, these are … Continue reading →

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