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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Roman Alexander, editor.

Klaudies, Alexander, editor.

Micklich, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Transformationen der Antike ; 1864-5208 Band 51.

Transformationen der Antike ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sympathy--Congresses.

Sympathy.

Sympathy in literature--Congresses.

Sympathy in literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Barton, Roman Alexander / Klaudies, Alexander / Micklich, Thomas

1. Origins Of Sympathy In Ancient Natural Philosophy And Theolog

Eros Und Sympathie Bei Plotin / Leinkauf, Thomas

Sympathie. Zum Ursprung Der Modernen Solidaritätsidee / Kobusch, Theo

From Ordo Rerum To Compassio: Augustine'S Philosophical Justification Of A Christian Theory Of Society / Fuhrer, Therese

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 / Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak

Sympathy And Antipathy In King Lear / Lobis, Seth

From Sympathy To Empathy: Donne And Milton / Cummings, Brian

Sympathy, Friendship, And The Effects Of Allegory In Seventeenth-Century Platonist Writing / Klaudies, Alexander

3. Paradigm Lost And Regained: Sympathy In The Eighteenth-Century

Rubbing Our Corners: Sympathy And Social Harmony In Smith And Shaftesbury / Uyl, Douglas J. Den

»A Fellow-Feeling Makes One Wond'Rous Kind«: Spectatorial And Narrative Sympathy In Adam Smith, Lord Kames And Oliver Goldsmith / Barton, Roman Alexander

Godwin'S Political Justice And Shaftesbury'S Moral Realism: Caleb Williams And »The Moralists« Between The Rhetorics And Poetics Of Affection / Micklich, Thomas

»Social Joy«: The Politics Of Sympathy, Universal Benevolence, And British Romanticism In The 1790S / Mee, Jon

»The Source Of All Our Virtues«: Sympathy, Physiology And Politics In Erasmus Darwin'S Work / Fairclough, Mary

The Negative Instance Of Sympathy / Lamb, Jonathan

Sympathy And The Poetics Of The Epitaph In The Long Eighteenth Century / Schwalm, Helga

Index Of Names

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

9783110515541

3110515547

9783110516418

3110516411

OCLC:

1059273303