It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust by Carolyn J. Dean
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When we are confronted with images of and memoirs from the Holocaust and subsequent cases of vast cruelty and suffering, is our impulse to empathize put at risk by the possibility of becoming numb to horror? Carolyn J. Dean's provocative new book addresses the ways we evade our failures of empathy in the face of massive suffering: Has exposure (or overexposure) to representations of pain damaged our ability to feel? Do the frequent claims that artistic representations of extreme cruelty are pornographic allow us to dodge the real issues that we must confront in attempting to come to terms...
The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust by Carolyn J. Dean is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust aloud.
The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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