Overview
- Develops Husserl’s investigations of empathy and self-consciousness, engaging classical phenomenology with philosophy of mind and social theory
- Demonstrates the importance of affection, agency, and habit for phenomenological research into subjectivity and the experience of others
- The first English-language text to comprehensively examine the new edition of Husserl’s Ideas II
Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 233)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Edith Stein
- Edmund Husserl
- Empathy in phenomenology
- Ideas II (Edmund Husserl)
- Personhood in phenomenology
- Phenomenology of Embodiment
- Phenomenology of Empathy
- Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity
- Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness
- Recognition in phenomenology
- empathy in recent social cognition research
About this book
This text explores how self-consciousness and self-understanding differ phenomenologically from the experience and comprehension of others, and the extent to which such relations are constitutively interdependent.
Jardine argues that Husserl’s analyses of selfhood and intersubjectivity are animated by the question of what's at stake in recognising an agent’s engagement as the situated response of a person, rather than simply as the comportment of an animal or living body. Drawing centrally from the freshly excavated Ideas II drafts and manuscripts, the author develops Husserl’s often fragmentary investigations of attention, habit, emotion, freedom, the common world, and action, and considers their implications for subjectivity and the experience of others. Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person also brings Husserlian phenomenology into dialogue with twenty-first century philosophical concerns, from accounts of selfhood and agency from analytic philosophy to the treatment of social experience in critical theory.
The book shows the reader that transcendental phenomenology can be rejuvenated by engaging with a broader philosophical landscape and will appeal to researchers, students, and instructors in the field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of Copenhagen in 2017, having previously obtained degrees in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield and the University of Warwick.
His doctoral research, supported by the Velux Foundation, was based at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Subjectivity Research and involved research stays at the University of Cologne, Columbia University, and the University of Vienna.
From 2017 to 2018, he was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCD School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, a fellowship awarded him by the Irish Research Council.
His research interests include self-consciousness, emotion, and social experience withinand beyond the phenomenological tradition. In addition to authoring journal articles and book chapters on such topics, he is the co-editor of Perception and the Inhuman Gaze.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person
Book Subtitle: Husserlian Investigations of Social Experience and the Self
Authors: James Jardine
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84463-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84462-2Published: 11 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84465-3Published: 11 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84463-9Published: 11 February 2022
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 300
Topics: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind