TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piirimäe,Eva
AU  - Lukas,Liina
AU  - Schmidt,Johannes
TI  - Herder on Empathy and Sympathy: Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders 
T2  - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407398
SN  - 9789004426870
AV  - B51 
U1  - 103 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Philosophy
N2  - The English-German collection Herder on Empathy and Sympathy / Einfühlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders considers the meaning and role of the concepts of empathy and sympathy in Herder’s thought. Herder invokes sympathy in a number of disciplinary domains ranging from metaphysics, biology, anthropology, epistemology, psychology, morality, politics, history, aesthetics to homiletics. It shows that while Herder belongs to a long line of thinkers who view sympathy as a metaphysical principle contributing to the interconnectedness of all parts of nature, he offers new insights about intra-/inter-species sympathetic communication and distinctively human varieties of sympathy for which he reserves the term “sich einfühlen”. Acknowledging the limits of the natural capacity for “sich einfühlen”, Herder nonetheless calls for its reflective cultivation in various domains
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004426870
ER  -