Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age.
The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of Antiquity" and the "August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular ‒ the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.
Author(s): Thomas Dieter Micklich
Series: Transformationen der Antike 51
Edition: ebook
Publisher: de Gruyter
Year: 2018
Language: English, German
Pages: 280
Frontmatter......Page 1
Foreword......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Eros und Sympathie bei Plotin......Page 25
Sympathie. Zum Ursprung der modernen Solidaritätsidee......Page 45
From Ordo Rerum To Compassio: Augustine’S Philosophical Justification Of A Christian Theory Of Society......Page 57
Adrift In The Ocean Of Sympathy: Shakespeare’S Poetic Economy Of Salvation In The Comedy Of Errors......Page 77
Sympathy and Antipathy in King Lear......Page 93
From Sympathy to Empathy: Donne and Milton......Page 113
Sympathy, Friendship, And The Effects Of Allegory In Seventeenth-Century Platonist Writing......Page 129
Rubbing Our Corners: Sympathy And Social Harmony In Smith And Shaftesbury......Page 149
»A Fellow-Feeling Makes One Wond’Rous Kind«: Spectatorial And Narrative Sympathy In Adam Smith, Lord Kames And Oliver Goldsmith......Page 179
Godwin’s Political Justice And Shaftesbury’s Moral Realism: Caleb Williams and »The Moralists« Between The Rhetorics and Poetics Of Affection......Page 197
»Social Joy«: The Politics Of Sympathy, Universal Benevolence, And British Romanticism In The 1790s......Page 225
»The Source Of All Our Virtues«: Sympathy, Physiology And Politics In Erasmus Darwin’s Work......Page 241
The Negative Instance of Sympathy......Page 255
Sympathy And The Poetics Of The Epitaph In The Long Eighteenth Century......Page 269
Index of Names......Page 287
