The Feeling of Inequality shows how inequality reaches far beyond quantifiable differences in income or capital and considers how widespread socio-economic inequalities affect our ability to relate to each other emotionally and intellectually.
The Feeling of Inequality shows how inequality reaches far beyond quantifiable differences in income or capital and considers how widespread socio-economic inequalities affect our ability to relate to each other emotionally and intellectually.
Martin Hartmann is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne. He received a PhD in Philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Toward a Relational Democratic Equality Part One: Empathy and Empathy Gulfs 1. Empathy as Non-Moral Psychological Mechanism 2. Against Empathy: Criticizing the Critiques 3. The Role of Imagination 4. Empathy Gulfs Part Two: Agents of Differentiation: Hume's Account of Positional Feelings 5. Sympathy and Imagination 6. The Principle of Comparison and the Peculiar Self 7. Does the Comparative Urge Disrupt Sympathy? 8. Masters, Servants, and Relational Proximities of Power Part Three: "We Despise a Beggar": Smith's Defense of Inequality 9. Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator 10. Limits of Sympathy in Smith 11. Going Along with the Rich and Powerful: Establishing Inequality 12. The Problem of Imputation: Sympathetic Prejudices Part Four: Distances 13. Drawing Systematic Lessons from Hume and Smith for an Account of Relational Inequality 14. Scenarios of Inequality: Domestic Cleaners, Cows, Restaurant Kitchens, and the Denial of Existing Relations 15. The Materiality of Moral Distance I: Tocqueville's Pre-Revolutionary France 16. The Materiality of Moral Distance II: Space, Marriage, Taxes and Language Part Five: Empathy Gulfs and the Question of Critique 17. What's Wrong with Empathy Gulfs? Complementary Dependence and the Union of Social Unions 18. Absolute versus Relative Inequality: A Problematic Strategy in Recent Egalitarianism 19. The Denigration of Envy and the Inequality of Emotional Impact 20. Critique and Comparison Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Introduction: Toward a Relational Democratic Equality Part One: Empathy and Empathy Gulfs 1. Empathy as Non-Moral Psychological Mechanism 2. Against Empathy: Criticizing the Critiques 3. The Role of Imagination 4. Empathy Gulfs Part Two: Agents of Differentiation: Hume's Account of Positional Feelings 5. Sympathy and Imagination 6. The Principle of Comparison and the Peculiar Self 7. Does the Comparative Urge Disrupt Sympathy? 8. Masters, Servants, and Relational Proximities of Power Part Three: "We Despise a Beggar": Smith's Defense of Inequality 9. Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator 10. Limits of Sympathy in Smith 11. Going Along with the Rich and Powerful: Establishing Inequality 12. The Problem of Imputation: Sympathetic Prejudices Part Four: Distances 13. Drawing Systematic Lessons from Hume and Smith for an Account of Relational Inequality 14. Scenarios of Inequality: Domestic Cleaners, Cows, Restaurant Kitchens, and the Denial of Existing Relations 15. The Materiality of Moral Distance I: Tocqueville's Pre-Revolutionary France 16. The Materiality of Moral Distance II: Space, Marriage, Taxes and Language Part Five: Empathy Gulfs and the Question of Critique 17. What's Wrong with Empathy Gulfs? Complementary Dependence and the Union of Social Unions 18. Absolute versus Relative Inequality: A Problematic Strategy in Recent Egalitarianism 19. The Denigration of Envy and the Inequality of Emotional Impact 20. Critique and Comparison Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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