Empathy (eBook)

Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives of a Cross-Disciplinary Concept

Vanessa Lux, Sigrid Weigel (Herausgeber)

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IX, 325 Seiten
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This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.

The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a number of these studies, the moral values and social attitudes underlying empathy in human perception and action are conceptualized as universal traits. It is argued that in the humanities the historical, cultural and scientific genealogies of empathy and its forerunners, such as Einfühlung, have been shown to depend on historical preconditions, cultural procedures, and symbolic systems of production.

The multiple semantics of empathy and related concepts are discussed in the context of their cultural and historical foundations, raising questions about these cross-disciplinary constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars of psychology, art history, cultural research, history of science, literary studies, neuroscience, philosophy and psychoanalysis.




Vanessa Lux is a research fellow at the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. From 2011 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in research projects on epigenetics and neuropsychoanalysis. She is a member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology.

Sigrid Weigel is a research scholar and former Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Literary and Culture Research in Berlin, an expert of Benjamin, Warburg, Heine, Freud, Arendt, Scholem et al. and has published on the cultural history of knowledge, images and European cultural history.


This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies, epistemic problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.The authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving. They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a number of these studies, the moral values and social attitudes underlying empathy in human perception and action are conceptualized as universal traits. It is argued that in the humanities the historical, cultural and scientific genealogies of empathy and its forerunners, such as Einfuhlung, have been shown to depend on historical preconditions, cultural procedures, and symbolic systems of production.The multiple semantics of empathy and related concepts are discussed in the context of their cultural and historical foundations, raising questions about these cross-disciplinary constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars of psychology, art history, cultural research, history of science, literary studies, neuroscience, philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Vanessa Lux is a research fellow at the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. From 2011 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in research projects on epigenetics and neuropsychoanalysis. She is a member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology.Sigrid Weigel is a research scholar and former Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Literary and Culture Research in Berlin, an expert of Benjamin, Warburg, Heine, Freud, Arendt, Scholem et al. and has published on the cultural history of knowledge, images and European cultural history.

1. The Heterogeneity of Empathy - An Archaeology of Multiple Meanings and Epistemic Implications; Sigrid Weigel.- Part I: Epistemic Interventions.- 2. Levels of Empathy – Primary, Extended, and Reiterated Empathy; Thomas Fuchs.- 3. Embodied Empathy – Clinical and Developmental Perspectives in Psychoanalysis; Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.- 4. Empathy and Other Minds – A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective and a Clinical Vignette; Mark Solms.- 5. Measuring the Emotional Quality - Empathy and Sympathy in Empirical Psychology; Vanessa Lux.- 6. From Absorption to Judgement: Empathy in Aesthetic Response; David Freedberg.- 7. The Empathic Body in Experimental Aesthetics – Embodied Simulation and Art; Vittorio Gallese.- Part II. Debated History.- 8. Empathy, Imagination, and Dramaturgy – A Means of Society in 18th Century Theory; Helmut J. Schneider.- 9. Einfühlung – A Key Concept of Psychological Aesthetics; Christian G. Allesch.- 10. A Question of Character – Analogy and the Empathic Life of Things; Andrea Pinotti.- 11. The Roots of Intersubjectivity - Empathy and Phenomenology according to Edith Stein; Patrizia Manganaro.- 12. Empathy’s Translations – Three Paths of Einfühlung into Anglo-American Psychology; Susan Lanzoni. 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.9.2017
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Zusatzinfo IX, 325 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte aesthetic theory • Dramaturgy • Einfühlung • Einfühlung • Empathy • Experimental Aesthetics • Intersubjectivity • Mirror Neurons • Neuropsychoanalytics • Neuroscience • Sympathy
ISBN-10 1-137-51299-7 / 1137512997
ISBN-13 978-1-137-51299-4 / 9781137512994
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