Sympathy in Transformation: Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics: 51 (Transformationen der Antike, 51) - Hardcover

Book 8 of 11: Transformationen der Antike

Micklich; Thomas; Barton; Roman Alexander; Klaudies; Alexander

 
9783110515480: Sympathy in Transformation: Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics: 51 (Transformationen der Antike, 51)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110515482 ISBN 13: 9783110515480
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2018

Synopsis

There is little doubt that sympathy plays a pivotal role in aesthetic as well as moral experience, yet also little agreement on how to describe this connection and its long history. This volume investigates the changes in the concept of sympathy as well as its rhetorical, poetical and ethical functions from antiquity to the threshold of Romanticism. The focus is on sympathy's development from a cosmological principle expressing the coherence, correspondence, and unity of all things into a theoretical key concept of intersubjectivity informing moral philosophy, criticism and literature. Thus, Sympathy in Transformation offers important insights into the many ways in which, when sympathy migrates into diverse discourses in Early Modernity, its ancient origins dwindle out of sight, while some of its central elements re-emerge in a surprising manner.

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About the Author

Roman Alexander Barton, Alexander Klaudies and Thomas Micklich, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110515482
ISBN 13 
9783110515480
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288