Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 14.99
-
7 397 Ft (7 045 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 13% (cc. 962 Ft off)
- Discounted price 6 436 Ft (6 129 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
7 397 Ft
Availability
Not yet published.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350345058
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages136 pages
- Size 214x138x12 mm
- Weight 180 g
- Language English 700
Categories
Long description:
Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship and disability studies as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast.
In 1908, the British psychologist, Edward Titchener, translated the German term EinfâÂohlung into the English language as 'empathy', around the same time that Eugen Bleuler coined the term 'autism' for a group of symptoms subset to an emerging classification of schizophrenia. Empathy became a useful tool to describe relations between people in a clinical context, but in the process of its incorporation into psychology, it shed its rich sensory meaning from EinfâÂohlung as 'feeling-into' weather systems, architectural forms, and artworks. A remarkable reversal takes place in the first part of the twentieth century whereby empathy becomes an intra-human ethical act, and autism emerges as its inverse. Digging up and examining the buried relation between autism with an earlier form of 'empathy', this book argues that autism, like cinema, models an ethical apprehension of the more-than-human world.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Autism and the Double Empathy Problem
2. From Empathy to EinfâÂohlung
3. Cinema: EinfâÂohlung Machine
Bibliography and Filmography
