One (Un)Like the Other: Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence from Husserl to Derrida

Cover Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction The Task of Rethinking Ethics The Historical Emergence of Empathy The Scope of Inquiry Part One: Empathy and the Theory of Transcendental Constitution Introduction Chapter One Husserl’s Transcendental Turn: Empathy and the Task of the Phenomenological Reduction Introduction §1. The Task of Husserlian Phenomenology §2. Intuition and Intentionality §3. The Cartesian Project: Objectivity and the Science of Phenomena §4. The Ego as Monad: Revisiting Cartesian Meditations I–IV §5. The Transcendental Reduction §6. Transcendental Idealism §7. Husserl’s Hermeneutic Turn §8. Concluding Reflections Chapter Two The Fifth Cartesian Meditation Introduction §1. The Problem of the Other §2. The Givenness of Experience §3. Reduction to the Sphere of Ownness §4. Appearances of Transcendence §5. Embodiment §6. Analogical Apperception of the Other §7. Pairing §8. Imagination §9. The Intersubjective Constitution of the World §10. From “My” World to “Ours” §11. Cultural Empathy and a Return to the Same §12. Descartes’s Dream Chapter Three The Significance of Empathy as Developed in Ideas II, with Reference to Husserl’s Later Works on Intersubjectivity Introduction §1. Background of Ideas II §2. The Constitution of Material Nature §3. The Constitution of Animate Nature §4. Constitution of the Cultural and Spiritual World §5. Experiences of Empathy §6. The Significance of the Body in Husserl’s Notion of Empathy §7. Husserl: Reflections on Analogy, Pairing, and Constitution §8. Later Developments (1929–1938) in Husserl’s Understanding of Intersubjectivity Part Two: Empathy as Reciprocity Introduction Chapter Four Max Scheler and the Phenomenology of Human Community Introduction §1. Scheler’s Distinction between the Emotive and the Rational §2. The Human Person as Ordo Amoris §3. Scheler’s Rejection of Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism §4. Scheler’s Rejection of Analogical Apperception §5. Scheler on Intentional Reference §6. The Rejection of Projective Empathy and “Fellow-Feeling” §7. The Primordial Givenness of the Community over the Individual §8. Some Critical Reflections Concerning Scheler’s Position Chapter Five Edith Stein and the Problem of Empathy Introduction §1. The Problem of Empathy Revisited §2. The Essence of Acts of Empathy §3. The Distinction between Perception, Knowledge, and Reflection §4. The Comprehension of Foreign Experience §5. A Distinction between Primordial and Non-Primordial Experience Chapter Six Embodiment, Temporality, and Emotions in Acts of Empathy Introduction §1. Scheler’s Notion of Psychic Causality §2. Notions of Temporality §3. The Problem of Representational Thinking §4. Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of Embodiment §5. Corrections and Deceptions of Empathic Acts §6. Constitution: Revisiting the Problem of Solipsism §9. The Environment and Foreign Experience Part Three: A Reversal of the Law of Empathy Introduction Chapter Seven Martin Heidegger’s Critique of Empathy §1. The Structure of Ready-to-Hand §2. Dasein as Directionality §3. The Question of the “Who” of Dasein §4. Heidegger’s Critique of Empathy §5. The Primordiality of “The They” §6. Everyday Being-One’s-Self and “Das Man” §7. Authenticity and Inauthenticity §8. Several Implications Regarding Heidegger’s Task Chapter Eight Emmanuel Levinas and the Face of the Other Introduction §1. The Problem of Transcendence §2. Hospitality to the Stranger §3. Time and Infinity §4. Ethics as First Philosophy §5. A Critique of Representation §6. The Night Of Il y a §7. Alimentation and the Elements §8. The Face and the Ethics of Discourse §9. Time and Death Chapter Nine Jacques Derrida and the Possibility of an Empathic Antipathy Introduction §1. The Task of Speaking Greek §2. The (Un)Wholly Other §3. The (Secret) Violence of Light §4. Of Violence and Metaphysics §5. An Empathic Antipathy §6. A Reversal of the Reversal Part Four: Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence Introduction Chapter Ten Gender and Reciprocity §1. A Review of Empathy §2. Empathy as Ethics §3. Considerations of Gender in Acts of Empathy §4. Implications of an Emotive Motification of Husserl’s Position §5. The Significance of Affective Constitution in the Order of Experience §6. Emergence of Ethics as Social Ontology Chapter Eleven Empathy and an Ethics of (In)Finite Respect §1. A Proposal for a New Paradigm of Ethics §2. Is Empathy a Quasi-Transcendental? §3. Empathy, Transcendence, and Imagination §4. Empathy and the Analogical Imagination Notes Selected Bibliography Index