Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/35693
Title: Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind : Perspectives on Fiction and Beyond
Authors: Kyprianidou, Efi 
Bantinaki, Katerina 
Vassiliou, Fotini 
Major Field of Science: Humanities
Field Category: Philosophy Ethics and Religion
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2025
Start page: 1
End page: 14
Abstract: Few ideas have been so widely accepted as the idea that art transports us to other places and times and offers new perspectives as we float between real and fictional worlds. In reading Pride and Prejudice, we feel absorbed in life in nineteenth-century Regency England; in seeing Gericault’s Raſt of the Medusa, we immerse ourselves in the horrors of the shipwreck that shook France’s political and social life by 1816. Sometimes, this deep and vivid immersion in an artwork affords, in the words of Rae Langton (2019: 78), a ‘shiſt in self-location’, a sense of first-personal presence in alien experiences: we not only see the world through an other’s lenses, but we affectively and/or cognitively relate to experiences that primarily belong to someone else. is remarkable phenomenon is invariably called empathy, whether manifested in everyday experience or the experience of art. e aim of this volume is to probe the character and role of empathy in our engagement with different forms of art, but also its significance beyond the artistic encounter: its value for cognition, our emotive life and our moral stance.
ISBN: 9781350409545
DOI: 10.5040/9781350409552.0007
Type: Book Chapter
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
Appears in Collections:Κεφάλαια βιβλίων/Book chapters

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