Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: EDUCATION

Chapter 1. Reforming the Past
Chapter 2. The Influence of the Philosophy of History
Chapter 3. A Conceptual Portmanteau

PART II: ORIGINS

Chapter 4. Empathy and Historicism
Chapter 5. Historicism, Neo-Kantianism and Hermeneutics
Chapter 6. Collingwood and the Continent
Chapter 7. Questions, Answers and Presuppositions
Chapter 8. Horizons of Context

PART III: CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 9. Competing Conceptions
Chapter 10. Historical Thinking and Historical Consciousness

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Empathy and History offers a comprehensive and dual account of empathy's intellectual and educational history. Beginning in an influential educational movement that implanted the concept in R.G. Collingwood's re-enactment doctrine, the book goes back to reveal the fundamental role that empathy played in the foundation of the history discipline before tracing its reception and development in twentieth-century hermeneutics and philosophy of history. Attentive to matters of practice, it illuminates the distinct character of the historical context that empathetic understanding seeks to capture and sets out a new approach to empathy as a special variety of historical questioning.

Tyson Retz is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Melbourne.