EAN: 9781137512987

EMPATHY GEBUNDEN

This book digs into the complex archaeology of empathy illuminating controversies  epistemic
problems and unanswered questions encapsulated within its cross-disciplinary history.The
authors ask how a neutral innate capacity to directly understand the actions and feelings of
others becomes charged with emotion and moral values associated with altruism or caregiving.
They explore how the discovery of the mirror neuron system and its interpretation as the
neurobiological basis of empathy has stimulated such an enormous body of research and how in a
number of these studies  the moral values and social attitudes underlying empathy in human
perception and action are conceptualized as universal traits. It is argued that in the
humanities the historical  cultural and scientific genealogies of empathy and its forerunners 
such as Einfühlung  have been shown to depend on historical preconditions  cultural procedures
and symbolic systems of production.The multiple semantics of empathy and related concepts are
discussed in the context of their cultural and historical foundations  raising questions about
these cross-disciplinary constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars of
psychology  art history  cultural research  history of science  literary studies  neuroscience
philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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