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oapen-20.500.12657-639022023-11-15T09:17:26Z Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art Petraschka, Thomas Werner, Christiana Christiana Werner;empathic understanding;empathy;experiential intelligibility;fiction;Iris Murdoch;interaction;interpersonal understanding;mental state;narrative immersion;philosophy of literature;social perception;Thomas Petraschka;testimony;understanding bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPM Philosophy of mind bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPN Philosophy: aesthetics 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. 2023-07-14T11:54:49Z 2023-07-14T11:54:49Z 2024 book 9781032367781 9781032367767 9781003333739 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63902 eng Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000960372.pdf http://www.routledge.com Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003333739 10.4324/9781003333739 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 631ac483-8bae-460f-9987-c3f4e4b98bb5 9781032367781 9781032367767 9781003333739 Routledge 389 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) open access
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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.
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