The Feeling of the Form
Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke
Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 November 2025
- ISBN 9781501783586
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 907 g
- Language English 700
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The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung - the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms - developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. The 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,"" The Feeling of the Form 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.
Traveling both backward and forward in time from the 1873 invention of Einfuehlung, 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 Einfuehlung, empathy, and the connections between them. In its surprising juxtapositions, The Feeling of the Form 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.
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Introduction: The Feeling of the Form
1. The Materialist Unconscious: Necromantic Empathy in Robert Vischer and Georg Buechner
2. Adalbert Stifter: Resistances of Form and Feeling
3. Bad Metaphors: Catachresis and Coercion in Rainer Maria Rilke
Conclusion: Coda: The Afterlives of Einfuehlung
