Empathy -- Reflections on the History of Ethnology in Pre-Facist Germany: Herder, Creuzer, Bastian, Bachofen, and Frobenius

The notion of empathy was characteristic of the romantic & neoromantic tradition in German ethnology. In Johann Gottfried von Herder's philosophy of culture & history, empathy was based in aesthetics, & involved an inner correspondence among humans, in both the plastic arts, & f...

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Published in:Dialectical anthropology 1985-06, Vol.9 (1-4), p.337-347
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