Article ID: CBB001213767

A Brief Conceptual History of Einfühlung: 18th-Century Germany to Post-World War II U.S. Psychology (2013)

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This brief conceptual history, modeled on Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichte, adds to earlier histories of empathy. It showed that Johann Gottfried Herder, not Robert Vischer, invented Einfühlung as an objective scholarly method during 18th-century absolutist--relativist disputes. Original 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century scholarly texts demonstrated that continued attempts to redress these disputes drove many of Einfühlung's conceptual transformations. Empathy first appeared in U.S. scientific psychology as a personal characteristic when relativists sought to redress the absolutist--relativist methodological dispute that began between John Watson and Edward Titchener. The conclusion notes limitations to this Begriffsgeschichte. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)

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Authors & Contributors
Bouterse, Jeroen
Wellner, Karen L.
White, John
Turner, Stephanie S.
Turkle, Sherry
Seigel, Jerrold E.
Concepts
Psychology
Terminology and nomenclature
Controversies and disputes
Empathy
Philosophy of mind
Emotions; passions
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Medieval
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Europe
Netherlands
Institutions
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
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