The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics. Metz, Metz,**

Cornell University Press

The Feeling of the FormEmpathy and Aesthetics from Bchner to Rilke\nAuthor(s): Joseph R. Metz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library\nISBN-13: 9781501783593, 978-1501783593\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nTraveling both backward and forward in time from the 1873 inven.