Empathy and the historical understanding of the human past:
"The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. De...
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| Summary: | "The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one's way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathic observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry." |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments Introduction xi 1 Historians’ Use of Empathy and Their Discomfort with the Concept 1 Empathy as the Focus of Contemporary Attention—Although Not in History 2 Aims of the Book 3 1 Historical Excursus: Empathy in the Debates over Knowing in the Natural and in the Human Sciences 8 The Status of Empathy in the Emerging Discipline of History 8 The Status of Empathy in the Emerging Discipline of Sociology 12 The Status of Empathy in the Debates over Covering Laws in History and K G. Collingwood’s Philosophy of History 15 The Status of Empathy in the Shift from Political History through Social History to Cultural History and the History of Experience 18 2 The Principal ContemporaryDefinitions of Empathy 28 3 Narrower Definitions of Empathy and their Relation to Historical Inquiry 36 Imagination and Perspective-Taking in Empathy 37 The History of Emotions and Empathy 40 Empathy versus Contagion, Merger, and Identification 41 Empathy versus Sympathy 44
x Contents 4 Three Examples of Empathy in Historical Understanding 56 The Majority Social Democrats and the German Revolution 56 The Wannsee Conference 60 Writing about the Holocaust 71 5 How We Know in Empathy 80 The Role of Context in Empathy 80 The Role of Subjective Experience in Empathy 84 The Role of Universal Experience in Empathy 90 6 Is Historical Empathy Unique? 96 Feeling and Knowing in Empathy 96 Empathy in Everyday Life and in History with a Detour through Hans-Georg Gadamer 102 7 The Authority of the Empathizing Historian 112 Empathy and the Historian’s Authority over the Past 112 Empathy’s Heuristic and Evidentiary Value 116 The Criticism that Empathy Cannot Bridge the Gulf of Place and Time 118 8 Concluding Remarks 124 Empathy in Psychoanalysis and in History 124 Some Implications of Recognizing Empathy’s Role in Historical Knowledge 126 Résumé 128 Bibliography Index 133 147
Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed bv the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociologę՛. The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one’s way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathie observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry. Insightful, cogent, and interdisciplinary, the book will be essential for historians, students of history, and psychoanalysts, as well as those in other fields who seek to know and understand human beings.
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction xi 1 Historians’ Use of Empathy and Their Discomfort with the Concept 1 Empathy as the Focus of Contemporary Attention—Although Not in History 2 Aims of the Book 3 1 Historical Excursus: Empathy in the Debates over Knowing in the Natural and in the Human Sciences 8 The Status of Empathy in the Emerging Discipline of History 8 The Status of Empathy in the Emerging Discipline of Sociology 12 The Status of Empathy in the Debates over Covering Laws in History and K G. Collingwood’s Philosophy of History 15 The Status of Empathy in the Shift from Political History through Social History to Cultural History and the History of Experience 18 2 The Principal ContemporaryDefinitions of Empathy 28 3 Narrower Definitions of Empathy and their Relation to Historical Inquiry 36 Imagination and Perspective-Taking in Empathy 37 The History of Emotions and Empathy 40 Empathy versus Contagion, Merger, and Identification 41 Empathy versus Sympathy 44
x Contents 4 Three Examples of Empathy in Historical Understanding 56 The Majority Social Democrats and the German Revolution 56 The Wannsee Conference 60 Writing about the Holocaust 71 5 How We Know in Empathy 80 The Role of Context in Empathy 80 The Role of Subjective Experience in Empathy 84 The Role of Universal Experience in Empathy 90 6 Is Historical Empathy Unique? 96 Feeling and Knowing in Empathy 96 Empathy in Everyday Life and in History with a Detour through Hans-Georg Gadamer 102 7 The Authority of the Empathizing Historian 112 Empathy and the Historian’s Authority over the Past 112 Empathy’s Heuristic and Evidentiary Value 116 The Criticism that Empathy Cannot Bridge the Gulf of Place and Time 118 8 Concluding Remarks 124 Empathy in Psychoanalysis and in History 124 Some Implications of Recognizing Empathy’s Role in Historical Knowledge 126 Résumé 128 Bibliography Index 133 147
Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed bv the literature on empathy in fields including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and sociologę՛. The book seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one’s way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathie observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry. Insightful, cogent, and interdisciplinary, the book will be essential for historians, students of history, and psychoanalysts, as well as those in other fields who seek to know and understand human beings. |
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