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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. While Herder is shown as belonging to a long line of thinkers who view sympathy as a metaphysical principle contributing to the interconnectedness of all parts of nature, he also 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.
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, anthr...
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Eva Piirimäe, Ph.D. (2007, University of Cambridge), is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Tartu. She has published many articles on Johann Gottfried Herder and the Enlightenment and has co-edited journal special issues on early modern political thought.
Liina Lukas, Ph.D. (2006, University of Tartu), is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu. Her research interests include Estonian-German literary transfer, Estonian and Baltic-German literature with focus on the 18th and 19th century. She has co-edited books about political and ecological thinking in Baltic literary culture.
Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D. (2000, Hamburg University), is Professor of German at Clemson University where he teaches literature, culture, language, and general humanities courses. He has published on 18th-century German literature, Johann Gottfried Herder, and is the co-editor of the Herder Yearbook.
Liina Lukas, Ph.D. (2006, University of Tartu), is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu. Her research interests include Estonian-German literary transfer, Estonian and Baltic-German literature with focus on the 18th and 19th century. She has co-edited books about political and ecological thinking in Baltic literary culture.
Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D. (2000, Hamburg University), is Professor of German at Clemson University where he teaches literature, culture, language, and general humanities courses. He has published on 18th-century German literature, Johann Gottfried Herder, and is the co-editor of the Herder Yearbook.
Eva Piirimäe, Ph.D. (2007, University of Cambridge), is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Tartu. She has published many articles on Johann Gottfried Herder and the Enlightenment and has co-edited journal special issues on early modern political thought.
Liina Lukas, Ph....
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