Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art.

Thomas Petraschka is Assistant Professor (non-tenured) for German Literature in Regensburg (Germany). His areas of specialization are theory of literature and aesthetics. He is the author of Einfühlung. Theorie und Kulturgeschichte einer ästhetischen Denkfigur 1770-1930.

Christiana Werner is Research Associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), has a temporary position at the University of Gießen, and is member of the research group ＂Mind and Imagination＂. She was Postdoc at the University of Goettingen and did her PhD at the University of Regensburg.