Sympathy in Transformation : : Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics /

Sympathy in Transformation : : Dynamics between Rhetorics, Poetics and Ethics / / ed. by Thomas Micklich, Roman Alexander Barton, Alexander Klaudies.

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 functi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Barton, Roman Alexander,
Cummings, Brian,
Fairclough, Mary,
Fuhrer, Therese,
Klaudies, Alexander,
Kobusch, Theo,
Lamb, Jonathan,
Leinkauf, Thomas,
Lobis, Seth,
Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak,
Mee, Jon,
Micklich, Thomas,
Schwalm, Helga,
Uyl, Douglas J. Den,
HerausgeberIn:
Barton, Roman Alexander,
Klaudies, Alexander,
Micklich, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Transformationen der Antike , 51
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Table Of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Origins Of Sympathy In Ancient Natural Philosophy And Theolog
  • Eros Und Sympathie Bei Plotin
  • Sympathie. Zum Ursprung Der Modernen Solidaritätsidee
  • From Ordo Rerum To Compassio: Augustine’S Philosophical Justification Of A Christian Theory Of Society
  • 2. The Richness Of Sympathy In Early Modernity
  • Adrift In The Ocean Of Sympathy: Shakespeare’S Poetic Economy Of Salvation In The Comedy Of Errors
  • Sympathy And Antipathy In King Lear
  • From Sympathy To Empathy: Donne And Milton
  • Sympathy, Friendship, And The Effects Of Allegory In Seventeenth-Century Platonist Writing
  • 3. Paradigm Lost And Regained: Sympathy In The Eighteenth-Century
  • Rubbing Our Corners: Sympathy And Social Harmony In Smith And Shaftesbury
  • »A Fellow-Feeling Makes One Wond’Rous Kind«: Spectatorial And Narrative Sympathy In Adam Smith, Lord Kames And Oliver Goldsmith
  • Godwin’S Political Justice And Shaftesbury’S Moral Realism: Caleb Williams And »The Moralists« Between The Rhetorics And Poetics Of Affection
  • »Social Joy«: The Politics Of Sympathy, Universal Benevolence, And British Romanticism In The 1790S
  • »The Source Of All Our Virtues«: Sympathy, Physiology And Politics In Erasmus Darwin’S Work
  • The Negative Instance Of Sympathy
  • Sympathy And The Poetics Of The Epitaph In The Long Eighteenth Century
  • Index Of Names

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