Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood [electronic resource] : Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations /
Magrì, Elisa.editor.
Moran, Dermot.editor.
This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s phenomenological investigations have been largely neglected due to a historical tradition that tends to consider her either as Husserl’s assistant or as a martyr. However, in her phenomenological research, Edith Stein pursued critically the relation between phenomenology and psychology, focusing on the relation between affectivity, subjectivity, and personhood. Alongside phenomenologists like Max Scheler, Kurt Stavenhagen, and Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Stein developed Husserl’s method, incorporating several original modifications that are relevant for philosophy, phenomenology, and ethics. Drawing on recent debates on empathy, emotions, and collective intentionality as well as on original inquiries and interpretations, the collection articulates and develops new perspectives regarding Edith Stein’s phenomenology. The volume includes an appraisal of Stein’s philosophical relation to Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, and develops further the concepts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. These essays demonstrate the significance of Stein’s phenomenology for contemporary research on intentionality, emotions, and ethics. Gathering together contributions from young researchers and leading scholars in the fields of phenomenology, social ontology, and history of philosophy, this collection provides original views and critical discussions that will be of interest also for social philosophers and moral psychologists.
Part 1. Stein, Husserl and the Early Phenomenological Movement -- 1. (Hans Reiner Sepp) -- 2. (Thomas Nenon) -- 3. The Dualism of the I. A Commentary on Hedwig Conrad-Martius’s Realist Phenomenology -- Part II. Empathy and Affectivity -- 4. The Chiasm of Empathy (Elisa Magri) -- 5. Stein on Emotion and Value (Ingrid Vendrell Ferran) -- 6. Empathy and Anti-Empathy: Which are the Problems? (Michela Summa) -- Part III. Personhood and Community -- 7. Being (as) a Person: Ontological Status and Phenomenological Basis of ‘Personsein’ in Edith Stein’s Philosophical Work (Jean-François Lavigne) -- 8. Empathy and Community in Edith Stein’s Phenomenology (Timothy Burns) -- 9. The Role of Identification in Experiencing Community: Edith Stein, Empathy and Max Scheler (Antonio Calcagno) -- 10. The Phenomenological Approach to Collective Intentionality: Edith Stein and Kurt Stavenhagen (Alessandro Salice) -- Part IV. Empathy and Medical Ethics -- 11. Stein’s Understanding of Mental Health and Mental Illness (Mette Lebech) -- 12. Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of Empathy and Medical Ethics (Fredrik Svenaeus).
This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s phenomenological investigations have been largely neglected due to a historical tradition that tends to consider her either as Husserl’s assistant or as a martyr. However, in her phenomenological research, Edith Stein pursued critically the relation between phenomenology and psychology, focusing on the relation between affectivity, subjectivity, and personhood. Alongside phenomenologists like Max Scheler, Kurt Stavenhagen, and Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Stein developed Husserl’s method, incorporating several original modifications that are relevant for philosophy, phenomenology, and ethics. Drawing on recent debates on empathy, emotions, and collective intentionality as well as on original inquiries and interpretations, the collection articulates and develops new perspectives regarding Edith Stein’s phenomenology. The volume includes an appraisal of Stein’s philosophical relation to Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, and develops further the concepts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. These essays demonstrate the significance of Stein’s phenomenology for contemporary research on intentionality, emotions, and ethics. Gathering together contributions from young researchers and leading scholars in the fields of phenomenology, social ontology, and history of philosophy, this collection provides original views and critical discussions that will be of interest also for social philosophers and moral psychologists.
Phenomenology .
Philosophy (General).
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Phenomenology.
History of Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.