TY - JOUR

T1 - Wahrnehmung und Explikation

T2 - Husserl und Stein über die Phänomenologie der Einfühlung

AU - Jardine, James Alexander

N1 - German translation of my 2015 Synthesis Philosophica article.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Within the phenomenological tradition, one frequently finds the bold claim that interpersonal understanding is rooted in a sui generis form of intentional experience, most commonly labelled empathy (Einfühlung). The following paper explores this claim, emphasizing its distinctive character, and examining the phenomenological considerations offered in its defence by two of its main proponents, Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Having offered in section 2 some preliminary indications of how empathy should be understood, I then turn to some characterizations of its distinctive structure, considering, in section 3, the Husserlian claim that certain forms of empathy are perceptual in nature, and in section 4, Stein’s insistence that empathetic experience frequently involves explicating the other’s own intentional experiences. Section 5 will conclude by assessing the extent to which their analyses lend support to a conception of empathy as an intuitive experience of other minds.

AB - Within the phenomenological tradition, one frequently finds the bold claim that interpersonal understanding is rooted in a sui generis form of intentional experience, most commonly labelled empathy (Einfühlung). The following paper explores this claim, emphasizing its distinctive character, and examining the phenomenological considerations offered in its defence by two of its main proponents, Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Having offered in section 2 some preliminary indications of how empathy should be understood, I then turn to some characterizations of its distinctive structure, considering, in section 3, the Husserlian claim that certain forms of empathy are perceptual in nature, and in section 4, Stein’s insistence that empathetic experience frequently involves explicating the other’s own intentional experiences. Section 5 will conclude by assessing the extent to which their analyses lend support to a conception of empathy as an intuitive experience of other minds.

KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet

KW - empathy

KW - perception

KW - interpersonal understanding

KW - Edmund Husserl

KW - Edith Stein

U2 - 10.1515/dzph-2016-0028

DO - 10.1515/dzph-2016-0028

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

VL - 64

SP - 352

EP - 374

JO - Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie

JF - Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie

SN - 0012-1045

IS - 3

ER -