A brief conceptual history of Einfühlung: 18th-century Germany to post-World War II U.S. psychology.

This brief conceptual history, modeled on Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte, adds to earlier histories of empathy. It showed that Johann Gottfried Herder, not Robert Vischer, invented Einfühlung as an objective scholarly method during 18th-century absolutist–relativist disputes.