Books written by Kristen R. Monroe

  • The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity
    The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity

    While factors as diverse as religion and genetics may contribute to the existence and development of what Monroe identifies as an altruistic perspective, it is the perspective itself that constitutes the heart of altruism.

  • The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust
    The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust

    Monroe's analysis of these stories draws on philosophy, ethics, and political psychology to suggest why and how identity constrains our choices, both cognitively and ethically.

  • Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice
    Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice

    This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers.

  • Contemporary Empirical Political Theory
    Contemporary Empirical Political Theory

    What is the role of culture in shaping any such nature? How objective and value-free can political theories be? These are only a few of the issues addressed by this collection of essays from a disparate group of contributors.

  • The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity
    The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity

    In "The Heart of Altruism," Kristen Renwick Monroe boldly lays the groundwork for a social theory receptive to altruism by examining the experiences described by altruists themselves: from Otto, a German businessman who rescued over a ...

  • The Political Process and Economic Change
    The Political Process and Economic Change

    ... politics. “In order to ascertain whether the incumbents have performed poorly or well, citizens need only calculate the changes in their own welfare” (Fiorina, 1981, p. 5). This pocketbook logic can be traced back at least to Hobbes. In ...