Empathy, Embodiment and Interpersonal Understanding: From Lipps to Schutz

Theodor Lipps and the shift from “sympat

Theodor Lipps and the shift from “sympathy” to “empathy”

✍ Gustav Jahoda 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 93 KB

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 Einfühlu