Keith Ansell-Pearson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. He was previously Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Malawi (1985-87) and Lecturer in Modern Political Thought at Queen Mary College of London University (1988-1993). In 2013-14 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University. David James is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His publications include Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (2023), Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx (2021), and Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and Necessity (2013). He is also the editor of A Critical Guide to Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (2017) and co-editor (with Gÿnter Zöller) of The Cambridge Companion to Fichte (2016).
* Introduction
* 1: Brooke Holmes: The Early History of âNaturalâ Sympathy:
Contagious Affect and Universal Kinship in the Hellenistic
Mediterranean
* 2: Matthew Sharpe: Between Inhumane Detachment and the Darker Sides
of Empathy: Stoicism on the Empathetic Emotions (including Pity)
* 3: Christopher Edelman: Towards âa merely excusable lifeâ: Reason,
Imagination, and the Empathic Emotions in Montaigneâs Ethics
* 4: Ryan Patrick Hanley: The Empathetic Emotions in
Seventeenth-Century France: Descartes and Malebranche on Pity and
Compassion
* 5: Kasper Kristensen: From Evil, Useless Pity to Active Empathy or
generositas: Empathetic Emotions in Spinozaâs Ethics
* 6: Jacqueline Taylor: Hume on Sympathy, Humanity, and the Passions
* 7: David James: Rousseau on the Natural Goodness of Pity
* 8: Remy Debes: Adam Smith, Political Stability, and the Pull of
Sympathy
* 9: Olivia Bailey: Sophie de Grouchy on Sympathy, Economic Inequality,
and the Corruption of Moral Sentiments
* 10: Allen Wood: Kant on Reason, Feeling, and Human Caring
* 11: Sandra Shapshay: Schopenhauerâs Ethics of Compassion:
Pantheistic not Pessimistic
* 12: Sharon Krishek: The Connection between Love and Compassion in
Kierkegaardâs Works of Love
* 13: James Jardine: Envisioning Others without Pretence: Husserl and
Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy
* 14: James Gordon Finlayson: Education Towards Empathy: Adornoâs
Theory of Coldness Reconstructed
* 15: Lissa McCullough: Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions
