Can the latest neuroscientific theories offer a powerful key to understanding eighteenth-century German literature? What links 4E Cognitive Science to the literary anthropology of the ganzer Mensch? In light of recent discoveries in neuroscience, readers are invited to immerse themselves in the most intimate prose of Sturm und Drang – examined in its formative stages – to embark on a journey back into the world of feelings and emotions. This volume traces an itinerary that captures the intrinsic vitality of a cultural moment that is, today more than ever, strikingly relevant. At the centre of the book, serving as the hub of its transdisciplinary weave, is the Gefühlstextualität: a new analytical category capable of revealing a poetics of emotion that emanates from the literary texture and resonates within our affective and cognitive horizons. Science and art, word and thought, heart and intellect, body and mind, author and reader, past and present enter into dialogue, opening original and innovative pathways for exploring the most intimate depths of human nature.