{"product_id":"empathyas-role-in-understanding-persons-literature-and-art-9781032367767","title":"Empathyâs Role in Understanding Persons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathyâs role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathyâs role in understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target personâs mental states, a process which is in turn seen as âœunderstandingâ this person. This volume, however, explores empathyâs 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 empathyâs 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 be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmpathic Understanding. Historical and Recent Perspectives on Empathy’s Role in Social Cognition and Aesthetics \u003cem\u003eThomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 1: Empathy and Understanding Other Persons \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Empathy Skills and Habits \u003cem\u003eShannon Spaulding \u003c\/em\u003e2. Can interactional approaches solve the empathy-sharing conundrum? \u003cem\u003eStefano Vincini \u003c\/em\u003e3. Seeing Others as Ends in Themselves. From the Empathic to the Moral Point of View \u003cem\u003eCatrin Misselhorn \u003c\/em\u003e4. Experience and Understanding in Response to Holocaust Testimony \u003cem\u003eAnja Berninger \u003c\/em\u003e5. Murdochian Self-Empathy \u003cem\u003eEva-Maria Düringer \u003c\/em\u003e6. The Structure of Rational Agency and the Phenomenal Dimensions of Empathic Understanding \u003cem\u003eKarsten R. Stueber \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 2: Empathy and Understanding Literature and Art \u003c\/strong\u003e7. Is There a Role for Emotion in Literary Criticism? \u003cem\u003ePeter Lamarque \u003c\/em\u003e8. Empathy, Fiction, and Non-Fiction \u003cem\u003eDerek Matravers \u003c\/em\u003e9. “Tell me, how does it feel?” – Learning what it is like through literature \u003cem\u003eChristiana Werner \u003c\/em\u003e10. Affective Resonance and Narrative Immersion \u003cem\u003eSuzanne Keen \u003c\/em\u003e11. Empathy for the devil \u003cem\u003eClaudia Hillebrandt \u003c\/em\u003e12. “Empathy is a swindle!” – or is it? Philip K. Dick’s \u003cem\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u003c\/em\u003e as an empathy test for readers \u003cem\u003eEva-Maria Konrad \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 3: The History of Empathic Understanding \u003c\/strong\u003e13. Imagination in Early Phenomenological Accounts of Empathy \u003cem\u003eÍngrid Vendrell Ferran \u003c\/em\u003e14. I Feel You: Toward a Schelerian Conception of Empathy \u003cem\u003eJean Moritz Müller \u003c\/em\u003e15. “[T]heirs is the future way of studying aesthetics” – Vernon Lee and the German Aesthetics of Empathy \u003cem\u003eThomas Petraschka \u003c\/em\u003e16. Vernon Lee’s Aesthetics: Empathy, Emotion, and Embodiment \u003cem\u003eJesse Prinz \u003c\/em\u003e17. Empathy and Enjoyment. On the use of reproductions in school practice after 1900 \u003cem\u003eJoseph Imorde \u003c\/em\u003e18. How Der Blaue Reiter reacted to Worringer’s interpretation of Lipps’s Schiller-based theory of empathy \u003cem\u003eRobin Rehm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019008966999,"sku":"9781032367767","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032367767.jpg?v=1750779009","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empathyas-role-in-understanding-persons-literature-and-art-9781032367767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}