Empathy: a history
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 psychologi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New Haven London
Yale University Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Empathy
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Empathy
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| Summary: | 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. -- Publisher description |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben und Index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 392 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0300222688 |