{"product_id":"the-feeling-of-the-form-joseph-r-metz-9781501783586","title":"The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke","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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph R. Metz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501783580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501783586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs","brand":"Joseph R. Metz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47135356780799,"sku":"9781501783586","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d7a7705-699c-4a65-a26a-2c4be986230a.jpg?v=1755009906","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feeling-of-the-form-joseph-r-metz-9781501783586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}