Thomas A Kohut

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367425784
• ISBN-10: 0367425785
• Artikelnr.: 59353823

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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