Empathy and history : historical understanding in re-enactment, hermeneutics and education / Tyson Retz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Retz, Tyson, author.

Series:

Making sense of history.

Making sense of history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Empathy--Social aspects.

Empathy.

History--Philosophy.

History--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Education

Reforming the past

The influence of the philosophy of history

A conceptual portmanteau

Origins

Empathy and historicism

Historicism, neo-kantianism and hermeneutics

Collingwood and the continent

Questions, answers and presuppositions

Horizons of context

Consequences

Competing conceptions

Historical thinking and historical consciousness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-959-5

1-78533-920-6

OCLC:

1046633970