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Can I read Theodor Lipps and the shift from ?sympathy? to ?empathy? on EtoBox?
Theodor Lipps and the shift from ?sympathy? to ?empathy? by Gustav Jahoda is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Theodor Lipps and the shift from ?sympathy? to ?empathy? about?
In the course of extensive philosophical debates on aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany, Robert Vischer introduced the concept of Einfühlung in relation to art. Theodor Lipps subsequently extended it from art to visual illusions and interpersonal understanding. While Lipps had regarded Einfühlung as basically similar to the old notion of sympathy, Edward Titchener in America believed it had a different meaning. Hence, he coined the term empathy as its translation. This term came to be increasingly widely adopted, first in psychology and then more generally. But the lack of agreement about the supposed difference between these concepts suggests that Lipps had probably been right.
Who reads Theodor Lipps and the shift from ?sympathy? to ?empathy??
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Psychology.
- Author
- Gustav Jahoda
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0022-5061)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)