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Naturrecht – Socialitas – Empfindsamkeit?

Rück- und Ausblicke auf eine diskontinuierliche Forschungsdiskussion

Natural Law – Sociality – Sentimentalism?

A Look Back and a Look Forward on a Discontinuous Discussion in Scholarship
In: Daphnis
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Michael Schwingenschlögl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München Deutschland

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Abstract

This article surveys various efforts made to explore the origins of the movement of Empfindsamkeit (sentimentalism) by emphasizing the role of natural law theories formed around 1700. The view of sentiment in Tugendempfindsame Literatur matches the anthropology of natural law theories that saw man’s proper state in an equillibrium of self- and other-oriented relations to the world. Conceptions of Geselligkeit connect natural law and Empfindsamkeit. Comparing different understandings of Empfindsamkeit, it may be concluded that a future multifaceted look at the roots of Empfindsamkeit that integrates seemingly opposing perspectives on the subject is both possible and appropriate.

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