Herder on empathy and sympathy: = Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders
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Other Authors: Lukas, Liina 1970- (Editor), Schmidt, Johannes 1987- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2020]
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 311
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Abstract:The English-German collection 'Herder on Empathy and Sympathy: Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders' considers the meaning and role of the concepts of empathy and sympathy in Herder's thought. Herder invokes sympathy in a number of disciplinary domains ranging from metaphysics, biology, anthropology, epistemology, psychology, morality, politics, history, aesthetics to homiletics. While Herder is shown as belonging to a long line of thinkers who view sympathy as a metaphysical principle contributing to the interconnectedness of all parts of nature, he also offers new insights about intra-/inter-species sympathetic communication and distinctively human varieties of sympathy for which he reserves the term "sich einfuhlen". Acknowledging the limits of the natural capacity for "sich einfuhlen", Herder nonetheless calls for its reflective cultivation in various domains.
Physical Description:XIV, 334 Seiten
ISBN:9789004426887