In this book The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin tells the story of the extension of human empathy from the rise of the first great theological civilizations, to the ideological age that dominated the 18th and 19th centuries, the psychological era that characterized much of the 20th century and the emerging dramaturgical period of the 21st … Continue reading The Empathic Civilization: the Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis Jeremy Rifkin (2010)