Empathy Books

• List of Books about empathy

• List of Articles about empathy

• List of Books about empathy in English at Swedish Empathy Center

• List at Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture

• Davis, M. H. (1996). Empathy: A Social-Psychological Approach. Westview.

• Decety, J., & Ickes, W. (2009). The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Cambridge: MIT Press.

• Eisenberg, N., & Strayer, J. (1987). Empathy and its Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Farrow, T. F., & Woodruff, P.W. (2007). Empathy and Mental Illness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Hoffman, M.L. (2000). Empathy and Moral Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Stein, E. (1917). On the problem of empathy. ICS Publications: Washington, 1989.
   

• The Altruism Question - C. D. Baston

• Empathy and Moral Development - Martin Hoffman

• The Empathy Gap - J.D. Trout

• The Ethics of Care and Empathy - Michael Slote

• The Social Neuroscience of Empathy - Jean Decety

• Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach  - Mark H. Davis

• Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others - Marco Iacoboni

• The Age of Empathy - Frans de Waal

• Empathic Listening Skills - UC Berkeley - (the process of listening so others will talk and feel heard is called empathic listening).

• Dissertation: Exploring the phenomenon of Empathy - Jakob Hakansoon - Stockholm University

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• The classical works for the development of empathy in Germany are

• Robert Vischer,
  Das optische Formgefühl,  reprinted in Drei Schriften zum ästhetischen Formproblem  (Halle, 1927), and

• Theodor Lipps,
  Raumästhetik und geometrisch-optische Täuschungen (Leipzig, 1897), and
  Ästhetik, 2 vols. (Hamburg and Leipzig, 1903-06; 2nd ed.
  1914-20).

• Vernon Lee
  [Violet Paget], Beauty and Ugliness and other Studies in Psychological Aesthetics (London and New York, 1912), written with C. Anstruther-Thompson; and
  The Beautiful (Cambridge, 1913) are the sources for her
  form of the theory.

• Herbert Langfeld,
   The Aesthetic Attitude (New York, 1920), is the best introduction in English. The
  fullest recent consideration is

• David A. Stewart,
  Preface to Empathy (New York, 1956).

• Shorter selections of Lipps translated into English may be found in E. F. Carritt, Philosophies of Beauty (London and New York, 1930) pp. 252-58;

• Melvin Rader,
  A Modern Book of Aesthetics, 3rd ed. (New York, 1960), pp. 574-82; and

• Karl Aschenbrenner and Arnold Isenberg,
  Aesthetic Theories (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965), pp. 403-12.

•  Wilhelm Worringer,
  Abstraction and Empathy (New York, 1953);

• Victor Basch
  Essai critique sur l'esthétique de Kant (Paris 1927);

• I. Kant,
   Critique of Judgment, trans. J. H. Bernard (New York, 1951), pp. 45-46. Thedevelopment of the method of Verstehen and empathic understanding occurs in Wilhelm Dilthey, Ideen über einer beschreibende und zergliedernde Psychologie  (Leipzig, 1894); and Max Weber, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur  Wissenschaftslehre (Tübingen, 1920).
  
   The best short statement and analysis of the idea occurs in Theodore Abel,
   “The Operation Called `Verstehen',” in the American Journal of Sociology, 54 (1948-49), 211-18, reprinted in Edward H. Madden, ed., The Structure of Scientific Thought (Boston, 1960), pp. 158-66. The full reference for Houkom is Alf S. Houkom, “Lucas Foss and Chance Music,” Music: the A.G.O. and R.C.C.O. Magazine, 2, no. 2 (Feb. 1968), 10.
   

• COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION AND EMPATHY’S AWAKENING
  By John Cunningham - About Nonviolent Communication

• Selected Readings on Empathy.