Empathic Civilization : The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, Hardcover by Rifkin, Jeremy, ISBN 0745641458, ISBN-13 9780745641454, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This major new work by bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin documents the emergence of a new form of human consciousness – empathy – that is, he argues, the only basis on which we can address the key challenges of the globalizing world of the 21st century.