The problem of empathy in Husserl’s phenomenology of intersubjectivity

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2023.1.44596

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empathy, phenomenology of intersubjectivity, own body, alterity

Abstract

In the theoretical debate about empathy, there is a recent renewal of interest in the Husserlian model. After a previous analysis on the place of empathy in transcendental phenomenology, we propose an investigation on how Husserl developed his perspective, from two texts, in particular, in Ideas II (Hua 4) and Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity (Hua 13, 14 and 15). We evaluate first, in Ideas II, what is the role of empathy, in the constitution of the psychic reality. Then, from the Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity, we propose an analysis on how Husserl developed the arguments of analogical apperception and original pairing. The notion of pairing appears around 1927, in connection with Husserl’s studies on passive synthesis and the deepening of genetic phenomenology. The phenomenology of empathy becomes, for Husserl, the foundation of a monadology “with windows”.

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Fabio Caprio Leite de Castro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

PhD in Philosophy from the Université de Liège (Belgium). Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do South (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre, RS.

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Published

2023-09-14

How to Cite

Caprio Leite de Castro, F. (2023). The problem of empathy in Husserl’s phenomenology of intersubjectivity. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 68(1), e44596. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2023.1.44596

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