{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-the-form-empathy-and-aesthetics-from-buchner-to-rilke-hardback-9781501783586","title":"The Feeling of the Form; Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke (Hardback) 9781501783586","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Feeling of the Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmpathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph R. Metz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501783586\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e342 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e explores the concept of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEinfuehlung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e - the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms - developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. \u003c\/b\u003eThe word would be translated into English as \"empathy\" and migrate in meaning from the aesthetic to the interpersonal sphere. Combining close analysis and cultural \"para-history,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e reads literary texts by Georg Buechner, Adalbert Stifter, and Rainer Maria Rilke alongside philosophical texts by Robert Vischer, Vernon Lee, and Theodor Lipps to uncover the often-uncanny intersections of aesthetic and interpersonal empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraveling both backward and forward in time from the 1873 invention of \u003ci\u003eEinfuehlung\u003c\/i\u003e, Joseph R. Metz traces the diverse and multidirectional exchanges among subjects and objects, feelings and forms, and selves and others that together yield an expanded understanding of \u003ci\u003eEinfuehlung\u003c\/i\u003e, empathy, and the connections between them. In its surprising juxtapositions, \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of the Form\u003c\/i\u003e also shows how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts prefigure a wide array of later thought, including affect theory, \"other minds,\" artificial intelligence, object-oriented ontology, and cinema and video game aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Feeling of the Form\u003cbr\u003e1. The Materialist Unconscious: Necromantic Empathy in Robert Vischer and Georg Buechner\u003cbr\u003e2. Adalbert Stifter: Resistances of Form and Feeling\u003cbr\u003e3. Bad Metaphors: Catachresis and Coercion in Rainer Maria Rilke\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Coda: The Afterlives of Einfuehlung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610560459032,"sku":"9781501783586","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-feeling-of-the-form-empathy-and-aesthetics-from-buchner-to-rilke-hardback-9781501783586","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}