Empathy and History offers a comprehensive and dual account of empathy's intellectual and educational history. Beginning in an influential educational movement that implanted the concept in R.G. Collingwood's re-enactment doctrine, the book goes back to reveal the fundamental role that empathy played in the foundation of the history discipline before tracing its reception and development in twentieth-century hermeneutics and philosophy of history. Attentive to matters of practice, it illuminates the distinct character of the historical context that empathetic understanding seeks to capture and sets out a new approach to empathy as a special variety of historical questioning.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: EDUCATION
Chapter 1. Reforming the Past
Chapter 2. The Influence of the Philosophy of History
Chapter 3. A Conceptual Portmanteau
PART II: ORIGINS
Chapter 4. Empathy and Historicism
Chapter 5. Historicism, Neo-Kantianism and Hermeneutics
Chapter 6. Collingwood and the Continent
Chapter 7. Questions, Answers and Presuppositions
Chapter 8. Horizons of Context
PART III: CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 9. Competing Conceptions
Chapter 10. Historical Thinking and Historical Consciousness
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
