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Theodor Lipps (28 July 1851 in Wallhalben – 17 October
1914 in Munich) was a German philosopher. Lipps was
one of the most influential German university professors of his
time, attracting many students from other countries. Lipps was very
concerned with conceptions of art and the aesthetic, focusing much
of his philosophy around such issues. Among his fervent admirers
was Sigmund
Freud, Lipps then being the main supporter of the idea of the
subconscious.[1] He
thought that each state had its level of consciousness and that
laughter was associated with hidden negative aspects. He adopted Robert Vischer
notions of empathy or
esthetic sympathy (Einfühlung). Late in life, Lipps
adopted some ideas from Husserl. Disliking his psychologism, some
of his students joined with some of Husserl's to form a new branch
of philosophy called Phenomenology of
essences.
See also
Notes
1. Pigman, G.W. Freud and the history of
empathy, The International journal of psycho-analysis, 1995
Apr;76 (Pt 2):237-56.
References
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Pigman, G.W. Freud and the history of
empathy, The International journal of psycho-analysis, 1995
Apr;76 (Pt 2):237-56.
Hatfield, G. Psychology Old and New,
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report
No.IRCS-01-07 (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
Lyubimova, T. "On the Comic", in:
Aesthetics, Art, Life: A Collection of Articles, compiled by T.
Lyubimova, M. Ovsyannikov; general editorship by A. Zis; translated
from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin (Moscow: Raduga Publishers,
1988), pp. 200-211.
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