Format:
xiii, 151 Seiten
ISBN:
9780367425784
,
9780367425777
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 133-146
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367853648
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Einfühlung
;
Geschichtswissenschaft
;
Einfühlung
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Kohut, Thomas August 1950-
