Empathy in the Context of Philosophy

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ISBN: 9780230241831 | 0230241832
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Copyright: 6/15/2010

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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	p. x
Series Editor's Preface	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Three key distinctions defined	p. 1
Historical limits constraining the world 'empathy'	p. 4
The trajectory of a special hermeneutic of empathy	p. 7
From the hermeneutic of empathy to its intentionality	p. 8
The neurology of empathy	p. 12
Empathy and ethics	p. 14
A Heideggerian Interpretation of Empathy	p. 16
Authentic being with others is neglected in Being and Time	p. 16
Empathy - the ontological bridge between selves?	p. 17
The historical matrix by which 'empathy' was constrained	p. 18
'Empathy' - the name of a problem	p. 20
A feeling that something is missing	p. 21
The possibility of authentic human interrelations	p. 22
A detour through ontology	p. 22
Distinctions for a design for being human	p. 24
Set up	p. 25
Honing in on the neglected interpretation	p. 27
Delivering Heidegger's Hermeneutic of Empathy	p. 30
Human beings are designed to be affected by each other's feelings	p. 30
Navigating the 'inner-outer' divide: mineness and displaced perception	p. 32
The example of vicarious feeling	p. 35
The other shows up in the paradigm of respect	p. 36
A design for empathic understanding: the other as possibility	p. 39
Ontic and ontological possibilities of empathy	p. 41
A design for empathy as interpretation implemented in the hermeneutic circle	p. 43
The fore structure of interpretation applied to empathy	p. 43
The other as structure of interpretation applied to empathy	p. 44
A design for different perspectives: taking a walk in the other's shoes	p. 46
Empathic interpretation as perspective taking: social referencing	p. 47
The rich silence of empathic listening by design	p. 50
The paradox of empathic speech - quiescing the idle chatter	p. 52
The authentic, committed listening of empathy	p. 54
Empathy between Death and the Other	p. 56
Empathy: the third alternative to the inauthentic crowd and authentic aloneness	p. 56
Empathy as becoming the conscience of the other	p. 57
Between the other and death: humanization and individualization	p. 58
Empathy as foundational being with	p. 61
Empathy as taking a stand for the other	p. 63
Empathy and trauma	p. 65
Empathy and altruism	p. 69
Empathy can be used for good or harm	p. 70
Empathy: brought to language as narrative	p. 77
Example of the act of empathic receptivity between Thomas and Hanno Buddenbrooks	p. 77
The hermeneutic of empathy: a bridge over troubled waters	p. 82
The Roundtrip from Hermeneutics to Intentionality	p. 84
Empathy and intentionality	p. 84
A single statement about the positive structure of consciousness	p. 85
Language as a method of access to intentionality	p. 86
'Mineness' and navigating the inner-outer distinction (continued)	p. 86
Intentional acts of empathy target expressions of life	p. 87
Constitutive acts of empathy	p. 90
Situating empathy in Searle's account of intentionality: preliminary distinctions	p. 92
Searle's account of intentionality: access through speech acts	p. 96
The limits of access to empathy through language	p. 108
Empathy from Periphery to Foundation	p. 112
Husserl's account of empathic intentionality: pre-predicative synthesis	p. 112
Husserl's noema not a Fregian sense (Sinn)	p. 115
The example of sight restored after a lifetime of blindness: access through breakdown	p. 116
Radicalization of the other in Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation	p. 120
The explosion of inter-subjectivity in the Fifth Cartesian Meditation	p. 123
Empathic intentionality aims at communalization	p. 126
Example of the constitutive act of empathy in the human face	p. 127
The case of acquired face blindness (prosopagnosia)	p. 128
Empathy as Vicarious Introspection in Psychoanalysis	p. 132
Vicarious introspection and the constitution of a psychoanalytic fact	p. 132
Without empathy, the inner life of man is unthinkable	p. 136
Example of the act of empathic receptivity in psychoanalysis	p. 143
Example of the act of empathic understanding in psychoanalysis (continued)	p. 148
Empathy, the self and selfobject	p. 150
Conclusion: empathy and translation	p. 155
Notes	p. 158
Bibliography	p. 166
Index	p. 176
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