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Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Hardcover)
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Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Hardcover)
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Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a
comprehensive consideration of the role of empathy in historical
knowledge, informed by the literature on empathy in fields
including history, psychoanalysis, psychology, neuroscience,
philosophy, and sociology. 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. Insightful, cogent, and interdisciplinary,
the book will be essential for historians, students of history, and
psychoanalysts, as well as those in other fields who seek to seek
to know and understand human beings.
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