{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-the-form-empathy-and-aesthetics-from-buchner-to-rilke-paperback","title":"The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph R. Metz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph R. Metz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45444797431910,"sku":"9781501783593","price":78.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/p6raUOnQ4w9781501783593.webp?v=1776088276","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-the-form-empathy-and-aesthetics-from-buchner-to-rilke-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}