Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past

ISBN-13: 9780367425784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str.

Thomas A. Kohut

Opis

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed by the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, and sociology.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: Historical Excursus: Empathy in the Debates over Knowing in the Natural and in the Human Sciences;Chapter 2: The Principal Contemporary Definitions of Empathy; Chapter 3: Narrower Definitions of Empathy and their Relation to Historical Inquiry; Chapter 4: Three Examples of Empathy in Historical Understanding; Chapter 5: How We Know in Empathy; Chapter 6: Is Historical Empathy Unique?; Chapter 7: The Authority of the Empathizing Historian; Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks; References; Index

O autorze

Thomas A. Kohut is the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History at Williams College, USA. A historian with psychoanalytic training, Kohut has published on topics in German history and on the relationship between history and psychoanalysis.