Description: Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past, Paperback by Kohut, Thomas A., ISBN 0367425785, ISBN-13 9780367425784, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Th seeks to raise the consciousness of historians about empathy, by introducing them to the history of the concept and to its status in fields outside of history. It also seeks to raise the self-consciousness of historians about their use of empathy to know and understand past people. Defining empathy as thinking and feeling, as imagining, one's way inside the experience of others in order to know and understand them, Thomas A. Kohut distinguishes between the external and the empathic observational position, the position of the historical subject. He argues that historians need to be aware of their observational position, of when they are empathizing and when they are not. Indeed, Kohut advocates for the deliberate, self-reflective use of empathy as a legitimate and important mode of historical inquiry"--
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Book Title: Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Name: Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, General, Study & Teaching, Mental Health
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Thomas A. Kohut
Subject Area: Psychology, History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
