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Sympathy : a history / Eric Schliesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical concepts.
- Oxford philosophical concepts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sympathy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- This volume offers a historical and philosophical survey of the concept sympathy in order to provide contemporary students and scholars a thorough introduction to the concept's significance and manifestation in western philosophy, arts, and the sciences. The editor's introduction offers an analysis of the concept. The volume contains chapters on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine, Renaissance philosophy and literature, early modern philosophy and arts, nineteenth century philosophy, economics, and psychology, as well as recent experimental economics.
- Contents:
- Introduction: on sympathy / Eric Schliesser
- Stoic sympathy / René Brouwer
- Plotinus on sympatheia / Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
- Reflection: Galen's sympathy / Brooke Holmes
- Sympathy in the Renaissance / Ann Moyer
- Reflection: music and sympathy / Giuseppe Gerbino
- Seventeenth-century universal sympathy: stoicism, platonism, Leibniz, and Conway / Christia Mercer
- Reflection: 'take physic, Pomp': King Lear learns sympathy / Sarah Skwire
- Spinoza's parallelism doctrine and metaphysical sympathy / Karolina Hübner
- The eighteenth-century context of sympathy from Spinoza to Kant / Ryan Hanley
- Reflection: theaters of sympathy in France / Julie Candler Hayes
- Hume and Smith on sympathy, approbation and moral judgment / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
- Reflection: tracing a line of sympathy for nature in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften / Elizabeth Millán
- Sympathy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche / Bernard Reginster
- From Einfühlung to empathy: sympathy in early phenomenology and psychology / Remy Debes
- Sympathy caught between Darwin and eugenics / David M. Levy & Sandra Peart
- Fair and impartial spectators in experimental economic behavior: using sympathy to derive action / Vernon L. Smith & Bart J. Wilson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 18, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-024719-3
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