Empathy's role in understanding persons, literature, and art / edited by Thomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner.
2024
BH39 .E554 2024
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Title
Empathy's role in understanding persons, literature, and art / edited by Thomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner.
ISBN
9781003333739 electronic book
1003333737 electronic book
1000960404 electronic book
9781000960372 electronic book
1000960374 electronic book
9781000960402 (electronic bk.)
9781032367767 hardcover
9781032367781 paperback
1003333737 electronic book
1000960404 electronic book
9781000960372 electronic book
1000960374 electronic book
9781000960402 (electronic bk.)
9781032367767 hardcover
9781032367781 paperback
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 380 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4324/9781003333739 doi
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BH39 .E554 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1389557268
Summary
"This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy's role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy's role in understanding. When it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target person's mental states, a process which is in turn seen as "understanding" this person. This volume, however, explores empathy's role in understanding beyond mere mental state recognition. With contributions on processes of interpersonal understanding and understanding of literature and art, it provides readers with an overview over both differences and similarities regarding empathy's epistemic role in two rather different areas. Since important roots of the debate about empathic understanding lie at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the historical section of the volume focusses specifically on this period. Empathy's Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics and the history of philosophy, as well as in literary studies and art history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Empathy Skills and Habits / Shannon Spaulding
Is There a Role for Emotion in Literary Criticism? / Peter Lamarque
Imagination in Early Phenomenological Accounts of Empathy / Íngrid Vendrell Ferran.
Is There a Role for Emotion in Literary Criticism? / Peter Lamarque
Imagination in Early Phenomenological Accounts of Empathy / Íngrid Vendrell Ferran.
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Open Access
Historical Data
Thomas Petraschka is Assistant Professor (non-tenured) for German Literature in Regensburg (Germany). His areas of specialization are theory of literature and aesthetics. He is theauthor of Einfühlung. Theorie und Kulturgeschichte einer s̃thetischen Denkfigur 1770-1930. Christiana Werner is Research Associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), has a temporary position at the University of Gießen, and is member of the research group "Mind and Imagination". She was Postdoc at the University of Goettingen and did her PhD at the University of Regensburg.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2023).
Series
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy.
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Print version: Empathy's role in understanding persons, literature, and art New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
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