Empathy: The Contribution of Neuroscience to Social Analysis

This book examines the concept of empathy in sociological and neuroscientific discourses using innovative perspectives from sociology and social neuroscience. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the author delves into the history of empathy and its social, cultural and semantic changes, and then reviews the conception of empathy in neuroscientific discourse.

Distancing itself from the traditional neuroscientific literature of biological universalism, this volume offers an innovative perspe...