Empathy’s Role in Different Levels of Understanding Literature: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives

Empathy’s Role in Different Levels of Understanding Literature: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives Christiana Werner, Christiana Werner Department of Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Email: christiana.werner@uni-due.de Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jana Lüdtke Jana Lüdtke Department of Experimental and Neurocognitive Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 79, Issue 2, Spring 2021, Pages 239–244, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab019 Published: 23 March 2021 Article history Received: 29 November 2020 Accepted: 20 December 2020 Published: 23 March 2021