Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art

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Thomas Petraschka (University of Regensburg, Germany) Christiana Werner (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art

Thomas Petraschka (University of Regensburg, Germany), Christiana Werner (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Literary studies: general; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy: aesthetics; Psychology

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in understanding.

When it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target person’s mental states, a process which is in turn seen as “understanding” this person. This volume, however, explores empathy’s role in understanding beyond mere mental state recognition. With contributions on processes of interpersonal understanding and understanding of literature and art, it provides readers with an overview over both differences and similarities regarding empathy’s epistemic role in two rather different areas. Since important roots of the debate about empathic understanding lie at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the historical section of the volume focusses specifically on this period.

Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics and the history of philosophy, as well as in literary studies and art history.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis .com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Edited by: Thomas Petraschka (University of Regensburg Germany), Christiana Werner (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 716g
ISBN: 9781032367781
ISBN 10: 1032367784
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Petraschka is Assistant Professor (non-tenured) for German Literature in Regensburg (Germany). His areas of specialization are theory of literature and aesthetics. He is the author of Einfühlung. Theorie und Kulturgeschichte einer ästhetischen Denkfigur 1770–1930. Christiana Werner is Research Associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), has a temporary position at the University of Gießen, and is member of the research group “Mind and Imagination”. She was Postdoc at the University of Goettingen and did her PhD at the University of Regensburg.