TY  - GEN
T1  - Empathy : a history
A1  - Lanzoni, Susan Marie
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1050871102
AB  - "A surprising, sweeping, and deeply researched history of empathy--from late-nineteenth-century German aesthetics to mirror neurons 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. Remarkably, this early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical psychologists refashioned empathy to require the deliberate putting aside of one's feelings to more accurately understand another's. By the end of World War II, interpersonal empathy entered the mainstream, appearing in advice columns, popular radio and TV, and later in public forums on civil rights. Even as neuroscientists continue to map the brain correlates of empathy, its many dimensions still elude strict scientific description. This meticulously researched book uncovers empathy's historical layers, offering a rich portrait of the tension between the reach of one's own imagination and the realities of others' experiences."--Provided by publisher.
OP  - 392
CN  - BF575.E55
SN  - 9780300240924
SN  - 0300240929
SN  - 9780300222685
SN  - 0300222688
KW  - Empathy.
KW  - Empathy
KW  - Empathie.
KW  - empathy.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Physiological Psychology.
KW  - HISTORY : Social History.
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -