Empathy : a history

Summary: 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. -- Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300222685
ISBN: 0300222688
Physical Description: print
xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Empathy as the art of movement -- The roots of einfühlung or empathy in the arts -- From einfühlung to empathy -- Empathy in art and modern dance -- Part II Making empathy scientific -- The limits of empathy in schizophrenia -- Empathy in social work and psychotherapy -- Measuring empathy -- Part III Empathy in culture and politics -- Popular empathy -- Empathy, race, and politics -- Empathic brains.