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What grounds have history educationalists for associating empathy with Collingwood's doctrine of re-enactment? Collingwood never used the term, and he inveighed specifi cally against psychologistic conceptions of historical thinking.The strongest reason may be that a good proportion of writers on historical method and the philosophy of history have discussed re-enactment in precisely that way. Peter Johnson, in mentioning Collingwood's praise for the contribution to historical thought of the German philosopher-historian Wilhelm Dilthey, writes that 'Empathy with the past is', for both, 'not a luxury that historians indulge, but a necessity if there is to be genuine historical understanding at all'. Rex Martin contends that the 'essence of empathy' is also the essence of Collingwood's theory, the goal of both being 'to take the point of view of the agent, by regarding his situation and the elements of his thought, and to deliberate on possible courses of action from that point of view'. Alun Munslow invokes 'Collingwood's empathetic rethinking of the past', 'the state of being "in touch with" the thoughts and situation of the historical agent'. 'For many reconstructionist historians

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN