Empathy: a history

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&q...

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Main Author: Lanzoni, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2018]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Physical Description:xiv, 392 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9780300222685
0300222688

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