18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)

15/11/2019 25 min
18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)

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John travelled to Odense, Denmark for a conference called “Love Etc.” (RTB is for it…) and fell into this conversation about empathy, identification and “uncritical reading” with the novelist Namwali Serpell and literary theorist Rita Felski. Hannah Arendt’s distrust of too much feeling, not enough thinking loomed large; so did Zadie Smith’s recent article in … Continue reading "18 Fictional Empathy. Rita Felski and Namwali Serpell (with JP)"
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