Ep. 687 - On Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy | Paula Marantz Cohen

Sep 19, 2022 · 50m 47s
Ep. 687 - On Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy | Paula Marantz Cohen
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9-19-22 Allen Cardoza Interviews Paula Marantz Cohen https://drexel.edu/pennoni/center-for-civil-discourse/overview/ http://answers.network An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy. While discussing Shakespeare’s...

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9-19-22 Allen Cardoza Interviews Paula Marantz Cohen
https://drexel.edu/pennoni/center-for-civil-discourse/overview/
http://answers.network

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy.

While discussing Shakespeare’s plays in her university classroom, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that they unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in both herself and her students. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare’s genius lay in his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

In her new book, On Human Kindness, Paul Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat “the other.” Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic responses to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature’s power to champion what is best in us.
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