Empathy and History Historical Understanding in Re-Enactment, Hermeneutics and Education |
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Author:
| Retz, Tyson |
Series title: | Making Sense of History Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-78533-919-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2018 |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
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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.