{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-the-form-1","title":"The Feeling of the Form","description":"\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\n","brand":"Joseph R. Metz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55261181673852,"sku":"9781501783593","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781501783593.jpg?v=1747732087","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-the-form-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}