The interconnection of Husserl and Stein, in view of their lives and selected texts (Stein’s On the Problem of Empathy and Husserl’s Ideas II and Cartesian Meditations), shows how they influenced each other and how they worked collaboratively in advancing the phenomenological project. Such a relationship supports the case for comparison and integration of their phenomenological accounts of empathy. Given such a context, we ask: How can we delineate the areas where they converge and diverge in constituting empathy? Can we find a way to integrate their phenomenological understanding of empathy? This paper presents some findings of a lengthy process of work in response to such questions. First, Husserl and Stein each have their unique contribution to the phenomenological understanding of empathy, and they have influenced each other’s understanding along the way. Second, their different ways of understanding empathy, inevitably affecting the constitution of intersubjectivity, led Husserl and Stein in different directions. Third, Husserl and Stein converge more than diverge in their understanding of empathy as embodied in their specific texts. These salient aspects pave a way for integration, and perhaps a richer understanding of empathy. I find such integration prominently explicit and feasible at the basic phenomenological understanding of empathy.

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Husserl and Stein on Empathy: Paving a Way Towards Integration

  • Francis B. Payo

摘要

The interconnection of Husserl and Stein, in view of their lives and selected texts (Stein’s On the Problem of Empathy and Husserl’s Ideas II and Cartesian Meditations), shows how they influenced each other and how they worked collaboratively in advancing the phenomenological project. Such a relationship supports the case for comparison and integration of their phenomenological accounts of empathy. Given such a context, we ask: How can we delineate the areas where they converge and diverge in constituting empathy? Can we find a way to integrate their phenomenological understanding of empathy? This paper presents some findings of a lengthy process of work in response to such questions. First, Husserl and Stein each have their unique contribution to the phenomenological understanding of empathy, and they have influenced each other’s understanding along the way. Second, their different ways of understanding empathy, inevitably affecting the constitution of intersubjectivity, led Husserl and Stein in different directions. Third, Husserl and Stein converge more than diverge in their understanding of empathy as embodied in their specific texts. These salient aspects pave a way for integration, and perhaps a richer understanding of empathy. I find such integration prominently explicit and feasible at the basic phenomenological understanding of empathy.