Empathy in the Context of Philosophy (Hardcover)

This work begins from our Socratic ignorance of empathy. It applies four philosophical methods -- phenomenology, self psychology, language analysis, and interpretive suspicion (hermeneutics) to generating a clearing for empathy as authentic being with one another in community. In philosophical empathy, the other individual humanizes the one who, in turn, give humanity back to the other in everyday empathy. Examples of empathy in story telling, literature, self psychology, and neurology explore the scope of empathy as the foundation for the community of fellow travelers in finitude. The inquiry is initially guided by Martin Heidegger's call for a 'hermeneutic of empathy.' It is informed by Edmund Husserl's posthumous writings on empathy, and it integrates the contribution of the Anglo-American tradition of John Searle. The result is an exposure of the deep structure of empathy as a fundamentally human capability for creating possibilities of community and human relations.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Renewing Philosophy
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	L. Agosta
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-24183-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-230-24183-2
Barcode:	9780230241831

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