- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The chapter discusses how various early phenomenologists by starting from an examination of empathy and other forms of dyadic interpersonal relations went on to develop analyses of larger social units in order to address questions concerning the nature of our communal being-together. More specifically, it shows how an investigation of dyadic empathic encounters figures prominently in not only Husserl’s, but also Scheler’s and Walther’s subsequent analyses of experiential sharing and we-intentionality. Not all phenomenologists, however, agreed with this prioritization of second-person engagement and face-to-face relationships. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of Gurwitsch’s and Heidegger’s criticisms and alternative approaches.
Keywords: empathy, second-person engagement, communal experiences, we-intentionality, Husserl, Scheler, Walther, Heidegger, Gurwitsch
Dan Zahavi is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of selfhood, self-consciousness, intersubjectivity, and social cognition from a phenomenological perspective. He is author and editor of more than twenty-five volumes including Husserl’s Phenomenology (2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (2005), The Phenomenological Mind (with S. Gallagher) (2008/12), Self and Other (2014), and Husserl’s Legacy (2017). He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
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- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Aristotle <i>in</i> Phenomenology
- Descartes’ Notion of the Mind–Body Union and its Phenomenological Expositions
- Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and German Idealism
- Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology: Brentano, Stumpf, Husserl
- Husserl’s Early Period: Juvenilia and the <i>Logical Investigations</i>
- Husserl’s Middle Period and the Development of his Ethics
- Pre-Predicative Experience and Life-World: Two Distinct Projects in Husserl’s Late Phenomenology
- Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions
- Edith Stein’s Challenge to Sense-Making: The Role of the Lived Body, Psyche, and Spirit
- The Early Heidegger’s Phenomenology
- The Middle Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphysics
- Phenomenology and Ontology in the Later Heidegger
- Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency
- Sartre’s Transcendental Phenomenology
- The Later Sartre: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics to Dialectic and Back
- Simone de Beauvoir: Philosopher, Author, Feminist
- Science in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology: From the Early Work to the Later Philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty from 1945 to 1952: The Ontological Weight of Perception and the Transcendental Force of Description
- Rereading the Later Merleau-Ponty in the Light of his Unpublished Work
- Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy
- An Immense Power: The Three Phenomenological Insights Supporting Derridean Deconstruction
- When Alterity Becomes Proximity: Levinas’s Path
- Turn to Excess: The Development of Phenomenology in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought
- Phenomenological Methodology
- Subjectivity: From Husserl to his Followers (and Back Again)
- The Inquietude of Time and the Instance of Eternity: Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
- Embodiment and Bodily Becoming
- From the Origin of Spatiality to a Variety of Spaces
- Intentionality: Lived Experience, Bodily Comportment, and the Horizon of the World
- Practical Intentionality: From Brentano to the Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles
- Ideal Verificationism and Perceptual Faith: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Perceptual Knowledge
- Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty on the World of Experience
- Imagination De-Naturalized: Phantasy, the Imaginary, and Imaginative Ontology
- Value, Freedom, Responsibility: Central Themes in Phenomenological Ethics
- Historicity and the Hermeneutic Predicament: From Yorck to Derrida
- Intersubjectivity, Sociality, Community: The Contribution of the Early Phenomenologists
- Index
