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A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of PhilosophyHusserl’s Rewriting of Empathy in Husserl

A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy: Husserl’s Rewriting of... [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 uses most of the underlying empathic distinctions. The sense of “the other” is separately constituted aside from empathic intentionality in the Fifth Meditation. The radicalization of the sense of “the other” in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation is traced to “mutual sense giving” at which point intersubjectivity explodes the limits of the sphere of ownness and a way out of the impasse of solipsism is sought in Husserl’s Nachlass (posthumous publications Volumes XIII, XIV, and XV). Thus, Husserl rewrites his own published approach to empathy in which “communalization” is reconstructed as “vicarious experience” and Husserl dramatically writes: “Monads have windows [….] The windows are empathy.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of PhilosophyHusserl’s Rewriting of Empathy in Husserl

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
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978-1-349-50462-6
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97 –118
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10.1057/9781137465344_7
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[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 uses most of the underlying empathic distinctions. The sense of “the other” is separately constituted aside from empathic intentionality in the Fifth Meditation. The radicalization of the sense of “the other” in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation is traced to “mutual sense giving” at which point intersubjectivity explodes the limits of the sphere of ownness and a way out of the impasse of solipsism is sought in Husserl’s Nachlass (posthumous publications Volumes XIII, XIV, and XV). Thus, Husserl rewrites his own published approach to empathy in which “communalization” is reconstructed as “vicarious experience” and Husserl dramatically writes: “Monads have windows [….] The windows are empathy.”]

Published: Sep 23, 2015

Keywords: community; Edith Stein; Edmund Husserl; Einfühlung; empathy; intersubjectivity; other minds; receptivity; sensual empathy; solipsism; the other; vicarious feeling

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