Empathy : a history /
Susan Lanzoni.
- xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-379) and index.
The roots of einfühlung or empathy in the arts -- From einfühlung to empathy -- Empathy in art and modern dance -- The limits of empathy in schizophrenia -- Empathy in social work and psychotherapy -- Measuring empathy -- Popular empathy -- Empathy, race, and politics -- Empathic brains. Part I Empathy as the art of movement -- Part II Making empathy scientific -- Part III Empathy in culture and politics --
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.