Sympathy in Transformation : Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics

Roman Alexander Barton

ISBN 10: 3110515482 / ISBN 13: 9783110515480

Published by De Gruyter, De Gruyter, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sympathy in Transformation : Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics
• Publisher: De Gruyter, De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110515482
• ISBN 13: 9783110515480
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 22D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 685 grams

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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.

About the Author

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