Feeling and Understanding. The Role of Empathic Emotions in Understanding Persons and Literature

网络的目标是从哲学、文学研究和神经心理学的角度来研究共情，特别是共情情绪在理解他人和文学中的作用。我们的目标是进一步回答理解他人和文学是否具有情感成分的过程的问题。为了达到这些目标，网络有一个系统的导向，辅以一个历史的焦点。历史分析将解决系统问题，论文在19世纪末和20世纪初的传统解释学和美学的“einfhlung”。通过这种方式，基本上被忽视的理论立场将受到新的系统审查，并可供当前的辩论使用。

The goal of the network is to investigate the role of empathy, and of empathic emotions in particular, in understanding other persons and literature from the perspectives of philosophy, literary studies and neuropsychology. We aim further to answer the question of whether understanding other persons and literature are processes with affective components. In order to reach these goals, the network has a systematic orientation, supplemented by a historical focus. The historical analyses will address the systematic questions to treatises in the late 19th- and early 20th-century tradition of the hermeneutics and aesthetics of 'Einfühlung'. In this way, largely neglected theoretical positions will be subject to new levels of systematic scrutiny and made available for current debates.