Sympathy
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780199928897
Subjects: Sympathy
Description: This volume offers a historical and philosophical survey of the concept sympathy in order to provide contemporary students and scholars a thorough introduction to the concept's significance and manifestation in western philosophy, arts, and the sciences. The editor's introduction offers an analysis of the concept. The volume contains chapters on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine, Renaissance philosophy and literature, early modern philosophy and arts, nineteenth century philosophy, economics, and psychology, as well as recent experimental economics.