Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology.
One (Un)Like the Other responds to the question, ‘What are the conditions of possibility that make genuine knowledge of other persons-and, therefore, love-possible?’ By providing an original interpretive framework for exploring ethics in relation to empathy and transcendence from multiple perspectives in continental philosophy, empathy is described as a trace of what remains essentially and irreducibly ‘other’ in every act of givenness. The use of the phenomenological method places ‘Einfühlung theory’ in its rich historical context, beginning with Husserl and the early phenomenologists and extending to contemporary issues that explore ‘otherness’ in light of consciousness, gender, embodiment, community, intentionality, emotions, intersubjectivity, values, language, and apophatic discourse. The implications of recasting ‘empathy’ in an interpretive and dialogical model of reciprocity envision new paradigms of understanding ethics as an infinite playing field. No longer subservient to metaphysics and ontology, empathy is described as an act of infinite concern, a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ that transcends epistemological theory and ethical command. Drawing on Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and others, this study presents an examination and expansion of empathy as an encounter with otherness in its most radical and transcendent forms.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Empathy and the Theory of Transcendental Constitution
Introduction
1. Husserl’s Transcendental Turn: Empathy and the Task of the Phenomenological Reduction
2. The Fifth Cartesian Meditation
3. The Significance of Empathy as Developed in Ideas II, with Reference to Husserl’s Later Works on Intersubjectivity
Part Two: Empathy as Reciprocity
Introduction
4. Max Scheler and the Phenomenology of Human Community
5. Edith Stein and the Problem of Empathy
6. Embodiment, Temporality, and Emotions in Acts of Empathy
Part Three: A Reversal of the Law of Empathy
Introduction
7. Martin Heidegger’s Critique of Empathy
8. Emmanuel Levinas and the Face of the Other
9. Jacques Derrida and the Possibility of an Empathic Antipathy
Part Four: Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence
Introduction
10. Gender and Reciprocity
11. Empathy and an Ethics of (In)Finite Respect
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Michael F. Andrews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Coeditor (with Antonio Calcagno) of Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein: Applications and Implications, he was formerly the Mc Nerney-Hanson University Professor of Ethics at the University of Portland and Senior International Research Fellow at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome.
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