Fiction and empathy: Is literature - understood as a life science - the key to human empathy?

Discover how literature shapes our empathy: The lecture shows why narrated worlds are more than fiction - and what they reveal about human empathy.

On a table is a copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The Little Prince" in German and French, as well as an open and a closed dictionary, a sheet of paper.

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On a table is a copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The Little Prince" in German and French, as well as an open and a closed dictionary, a sheet of paper.
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"Zur Rosen"
Johannisstraße 13, Auditorium
07743 Jena
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In the context of
LIGHT.LIFE.LIBERTY. Theme week "What is life?"
Speaker
Jun.-Prof. Valeska Bopp-Filimonov
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Language of the event
German
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