| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Biography |
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 ̃sthetischen 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 zMind and Imaginationy. She was Postdoc at the University of Goettingen and did her PhD at the University of Regensburg. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Empathy.
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Aesthetics.
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Arts -- Psychology.
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Aesthetics. (OCoLC)fst00798702
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Arts -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00817797
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Empathy. (OCoLC)fst00908880
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PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
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PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
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| Added Author |
Petraschka, Thomas, 1982- editor.
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Werner, Christiana, 1979- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Empathy's role in understanding persons, literature, and art New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781032367767 (DLC) 2023018278 |
| ISBN |
9781003333739 (ebook) |
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1003333737 (ebook) |
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9781000960402 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1000960404 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9781000960372 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1000960374 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781032367767 (hardback) |
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9781032367781 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003333739 doi |
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