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A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy

DOI: 10.1057/9781137465344

ISBN: 978-1-349-50462-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 23, 2015

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Introduction: Rewriting the Definition of Empathy

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 1 –8

[This inquiry examines empathy as used in context even when the word “empathy” is not explicitly mentioned. The capacity for empathy, not the mere word, is engaged in diverse intellectual traditions. The difference between the mention of the word “empathy” and its use is indicated by enclosing...
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A Rumor of Empathy in Hume’s Many Uses of Sympathy

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 9 –30

[David Hume has at least four distinct meanings of “sympathy.” These are mapped in detail to the multi-dimensional aspects of empathic receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and empathic responsiveness. In turn, “sympathy” is engaged as receptivity to affects; as...
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A Rumor of Empathy in Kant

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 31 –52

[A single line in Kant regarding the “communicability of feelings” is taken as a clue. A full, robust definition of empathy makes use of the four moments of the judgment of aesthetic taste— disinterestedness, universality, purposiveness without purpose, and necessity. Like taste, empathy is...
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From a Rumor of Empathy to a Scandal of Empathy in Lipps

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 53 –65

[Theodor Lipps is the thinker most responsible for popularizing the term “empathy” in German. He monopolized the term “Einfühlung” [“empathy”] so that any German intellectual writing from 1897 to 1914 set off an immediate association with Lipps’ “psychology beauty and art” (the subtitle of Lipps’...
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Rewriting Empathy in Freud

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 66 –82

[Theodor Lipps had a direct influence on Sigmund Freud. Nevertheless, Freud’s use and mention of “empathy” is complicated by James Strachey’s mistranslation of the term. Freud’s method was an empathic one, and the dispute is not that Freud did not use or value empathy. Freud applies empathy in...
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Rewriting Empathy in Max Scheler

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 83 –96

[Max Scheler provides a penetrating phenomenological inquiry into diverse forms of sympathy in which he explicitly includes “empathy.” Scheler’s inquiry and phenomenological analysis of vicarious feeling and experience is especially penetrating as Scheler explicitly raises the philosophical...
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Husserl’s Rewriting of Empathy in Husserl

Agosta, Lou

Pages: 97 –118

[In all of Edmund Husserl’s published writings, “empathy” is a part of the superstructure of intersubjectivity (community), and in no case is it a primitive function at the foundation of intersubjectivity. Edith Stein’s use and mention of “empathy” are in effect passed over by Husserl even as he...

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