Empathy: for better, for worse
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Are we hard-wired to feel other people\\u2019s pain? And if so, is it necessarily a good thing? Andrew Scull has reviewed three new books on empathy and joins us to tell us more; Charles Dickens\'s love of all things theatrical \\u2013 in life as in art \\u2013 is no secret. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst considers fifty years\' worth of Dickens adaptations for the stage (and film)
Books
The Empathy Instinct by Peter Bazalgette
Against Empathy: The case for rational compassion by Paul Bloom
The Invention of Humanity: Equality and cultural difference in world history by Siep Stuurman
Dickensian Dramas: Plays from Charles Dickens (Volume One, edited by Jacky Bratton; Volume Two, edited by Jim Davis
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