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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.
A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding,
interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes
the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the
philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the
hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence
of another human being.
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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