Empathy

Empathy: a history

by Lanzoni, Susan

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Résumé éditeur : "Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or "in-feeling" in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. Remarkably, this early conception of empathy transformed into…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Empathy : a history / Susan Lanzoni.

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Résumé éditeur : "Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or "in-feeling" in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. Remarkably, this early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical psychologists refashioned empathy to require the deliberate putting aside of one's feelings to more accurately understand another's. By the end of World War II, interpersonal empathy entered the mainstream, appearing in advice columns, popular radio and TV, and later in public forums on civil rights. Even as neuroscientists continue to map the brain correlates of empathy, its many dimensions still elude strict scientific description. This meticulously researched book uncovers empathy's historical layers, offering a rich portrait of the tension between the reach of one's own imagination and the realities of others' experiences."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:copyright 2018.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Yale University Press
  • Place of Publication:New Haven
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:copyright 2018.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 volume (xiv, 392 pages) : : illustrations. ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780300222685 (rel), 0300222688 (rel)
  • oclc:on1079841151
  • LC Classification:BF575.E55
  • Dewey Decimal:152.4/1

Subjects

Empathie Empathie -- Histoire Empathy empathy

Writers

Lanzoni, Susan

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