Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-Enactment, Hermeneutics and Education

By Tyson Retz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800734387
• ISBN13: 9781800734388
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"