Empathy Imperiled

The mostcritical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy’s revolutionarypotential and today’s empathically-impaired society is the interaction betweenthe brain and our dominant political culture. The evolutionary process hasgiven rise to a hard-wired neural system in the primal brain and particularlyin the human brain.  This book argues that the crucial missing piece inthis conversation is the failure to identify and explain the dynamicrelationship between an empathy gap and the h