I am you : the hermeneutics of empathy in western literature, theology, and art

394 Pages·1988·28.14 MB·English

by  Morrison

"I AM YOU"

"I AM Y O U"
The Hermeneutics of Empathy
in Western Literature,
Theology, and Art
Karl F. Morrison
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction xix
PART I THE CONTENT OF THE SAYING
Chapter 1 The Positive Content 3
Chapter 2 The Negative Content 33
PART II PATTERNS OF UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 3 Amorous Sympathy: John Donne 43
Chapter 4 Malevolent Sympathy 69
A. Augustine: Play and Enmity 69
B. Three Twentieth-Century Texts: and Pirandello, Joyce,
Thomas Mann 97
Chapter 5 Implications for Social Unity: Augustine and Feuerbach,
with a Digression on Darwin 137
PART III UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING:
THE SILENCE OF WORDS
Introduction 169
Chapter 6 Rhetoric Swallowed up in Hermeneutic: The Case of
Augustine 172
Chapter 7 Diagramming the Hermeneutic Circle: The Example of
Gerhoch of Reichersberg 191
Chapter 8 Schleiermacher’s Anthropology 238
Conclusion 262
PART IV UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING:
THE INVISIBILITY OF ART
Chapter 9 The Hermeneutic Gap in Painting 269
viii CONTENTS
Chapter 10 Participatory ng idnoBthrough Painting: The
ic tsalconocDIispute a. c(726-843) 281
Chapter 11 Art as m: salconocIThe Contemplative Tradition in
Western Art 96 2
Chapter 12 The cy nadnecsAof Sensations er voPassions:
Departures om rfal usiVsm ilaeR 26 3
Conclusion 46 3
ue golipEon ed dracsiAltaDrpieces 350
The ll aCom rfWithin the ds roW 53 3
Index 59 3
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
TE AI. LPpe esuJde a, rebiRThe Sense of Touch. Courtesy he TNorton
Simon Foundation. 02 3
TE AI. ILPRembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz van ), njiRAristotle with a
Bust of Homer. he TMetropolitan Museum of Art, k. ew NroY
ed sahcruPwith al icds neupfsnd ats figof ds neirfof the Museum,
1961. 8) 91.16( 303
TE AI. IILPca GiuordLano, with Carneades a Bust of Paniscus. Stanley
Moss nd aCompany, c. nI 304
TE V. AILPAdriaen f, an vfrder eWChildren Playing before a Sculptural
Group with Hercules. Munich, Alte Pinakothek. 05 3
TE V. ALPle criCof Pierre Mignard h, cnerF(1612-95), Portrait of the
Sculptor Antoine Coysevox. The Portland Art Museum, Portland,
Oregon, ft igof Mr. nd aMrs. in wdEey nniBd. 3 06 3
TE AI. VLPef snz aroFJMori and/after as msoCDamian Asam, "Das Innere
es dFreisinger Domes ch aner dUmgestaltung durch ie der diirBAsam,
1724ef ," sin oHJeckenstaller, Dissertatio Historica Antiquitate de et
alhs quibusdam Memorabihbus Cathedralis Ecclesiae Frisingensis
(Munich, ). 4281Archiv es dErzbistums Munchen und Freising. 22 3
TE ALI. IVPJ. Maass, View of the Rubens Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek,
Munich (1895). Munich, Staatsgemaldesammlungen. 23 3