The Empathy Diaries
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The Empathy Diaries by Sherry Turkle
Growing up in post-war Brooklyn, Sherry Turkle searched for clues to her identity in a house filled with mysteries. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father - and never to use his name, her name. Before empathy was a way to find connection, it was her strategy for survival. She learned friendship at a Harvard/Radcliffe on the cusp of coeducation during the anti-war movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and fought for her place as a woman and a humanist at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections.
She is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (MIT Press, twentieth anniversary edition), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, among other books. She is the editor of three MIT Press books: Evocative Items: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Electronics. Anita Say Chan is an Assistant Research Professor of Communications in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Media's Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute of Communications Research.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525560111 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525560114 |
| Title | The Empathy Diaries |
| Author | Sherry Turkle |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2022-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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