Table of Contents

1 • Philosophers on Sympathy.- 2 • Sympathy in a Biological Context: Charles Darwin and William McDougall.- 3 • The Nature of Sympathy.- 4 • The Definition of Sympathy.- 5 • The Provenance of Sympathy.- 6 • Laboratory Analogues of Sympathy.- 7 • The Role of Faces and Places in the Arousal of Sympathy.- 8 • The Roles of Imagery and Mimicry in Sympathy.- 9 • A Summary of the Theory of Sympathy.- 10 • The Function of Sympathy.- References.- Author Index.