Empathy in the Context of Philosophy
Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story telling, literature, and self psychology, rescuing empathy from the margins and revealing its role in the understanding of the other and human community.
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Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story telling, literature, and self psychology, rescuing empathy from the margins and revealing its role in the understanding of the other and human community.
List of Figures xSeries Editor's Preface xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgements xviiiIntroduction 1Three key distinctions defined 1Historical limits constraining the world 'empathy' 4The trajectory of a special hermeneutic of empathy 7From the hermeneutic of empathy to its intentionality 8The neurology of empathy 12Empathy and ethics 141 A Heideggerian Interpretation of Empathy 16Authentic being with others is neglected in Being and Time 16Empathy - the ontological bridge between selves? 17The historical matrix by which 'empathy' was constrained 18'Empathy' - the name of a problem 20A feeling that something is missing 21The possibility of authentic human interrelations 22A detour through ontology 22Distinctions for a design for being human 24Set up 25Honing in on the neglected interpretation 272 Delivering Heidegger's Hermeneutic of Empathy 30Human beings are designed to be affected by each other's feelings 30Navigating the 'inner-outer' divide: mineness and displaced perception 32The example of vicarious feeling 35The other shows up in the paradigm of respect 36A design for empathic understanding: the other as possibility 39Ontic and ontological possibilities of empathy 41A design for empathy as interpretation implemented in the hermeneutic circle 43The fore structure of interpretation applied to empathy 43The other as structure of interpretation applied to empathy 44A design for different perspectives: taking a walk in the other's shoes 46Empathic interpretation as perspective taking: social referencing 47The rich silence of empathic listening by design 50The paradox of empathic speech - quiescing the idle chatter 52The authentic, committed listening of empathy 543 Empathy between Death and the Other 56Empathy: the third alternative to the inauthentic crowd and authentic aloneness 56Empathy as becoming the conscience of the other 57Between the other and death: humanization and individualization 58Empathy as foundational being with 61Empathy as taking a stand for the other 63Empathy and trauma 65Empathy and altruism 69Empathy can be used for good or harm 70Empathy: brought to language as narrative 77Example of the act of empathic receptivity between Thomas and Hanno Buddenbrooks 77The hermeneutic of empathy: a bridge over troubled waters 824 The Roundtrip from Hermeneutics to Intentionality 84Empathy and intentionality 84A single statement about the positive structure of consciousness 85Language as a method of access to intentionality 86'Mineness' and navigating the inner-outer distinction (continued) 86Intentional acts of empathy target expressions of life 87Constitutive acts of empathy 90Situating empathy in Searle's account of intentionality: preliminary distinctions 92Searle's account of intentionality: access through speech acts 96The limits of access to empathy through language 1085 Empathy from Periphery to Foundation 112Husserl's account of empathic intentionality: pre-predicative synthesis 112Husserl's noema not a Fregian sense (Sinn) 115The example of sight restored after a lifetime of blindness: access through breakdown 116Radicalization of the other in Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation 120The explosion of inter-subjectivity in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation 123Empathic intentionality aims at communalization 126Example of the constitutive act of empathy in the human face 127The case of acquired face blindness (prosopagnosia) 1286 Empathy as Vicarious Introspection in Psychoanalysis 132Vicarious introspection and the constitution of a psychoanalytic fact 132Without empathy, the inner life of man is unthinkable 136Example of the act of empathic receptivity in psychoanalysis 143Example of the act of empathic understanding in psychoanalysis (continued) 148Empathy, the self and selfobject 150Conclusion: empathy and translation 155Notes 158Bibliography 166Index 176
