Research Catalog

Title

The empathy diaries : a memoir / Sherry Turkle.

Author

Turkle, Sherry

Publication

• New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xxi, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work In this vivid and poignant narrative, Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman 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. THE EMPATHY DIARIES captures all this in rich detail--and offers a masterclass in finding meaning through life's work."--

Subject

• Turkle, Sherry
• Psychologists > United States > Biography
• Empathy
• Technology > Social aspects
• PSYCHOLOGY / General
• Psychologists
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biography.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-357).

Contents

Introduction: Le nom du Père -- 1948-1968. Summer palace/winter palace ; The memory closet ; An unsentimental education ; Dépaysement ; Twelfth night ; Taxis ; Mourning -- 1968-1975. Newspapers and vinegar ; Things for thinking ; Great books ; The Lacanian village ; Chère-cheur ; The perfect shortcake ; Knots -- 1976-1985. The xerox room ; Building 20 ; The marriage of true minds ; Coming apart ; The last experiment ; The assault on empathy -- Epilogue: People are not objects.

Call Number

JFE 21-5222

ISBN

• 9780525560098
• 0525560092

LCCN

2020025410

OCLC

1157906209

Author

Turkle, Sherry, author.

Title

The empathy diaries : a memoir / Sherry Turkle.

Publisher

New York : Penguin Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-357).

Other Form:

Online version: Turkle, Sherry. The empathy diaries New York : Penguin Press, 2021. 9780525560104 (DLC) 2020025411

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5222