L’empathie à l’épreuve dans les arts et les littératures de langue française

Responding to the urgent need for new critical frameworks in an era of systemic crises, this volume makes a compelling case for empathy as a vital epistemological tool. The collection, which gathers twenty-four international scholars, re-energizes the study of French-language arts and literatures by connecting the philosophical legacy of Husserl and Lipps to the contemporary affective turn. While essays meticulously analyze the technical construction of narrative empathy, the book’s core provocation is its powerful synthesis of empathy with theories, notions and approaches such as pragmatism, attention theory, or the concept of milieu. This innovative theoretical alignment transforms empathy from a mere feeling into a rigorous method for critical inquiry. Ultimately, this volume does not simply examine the nexus between empathy and fiction; it enacts an empathetic scholarship, offering a powerful, nuanced approach to understanding our complex contemporary world.