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The authors offer a phenomenological reflection on the problem of the interconnection between empathy and ethics; essential reading for professionals and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, health science, psychology, and sociology.
List of contents
Chapter 1, Why Empathy Means Nothing-and Everything-for Ethics, John J. Drummond
Chapter 2, Ethics, empathy, and vulnerability. Trust as a way of making sense of our vulnerability and dependability, Esteban Marín-Ávila
Chapter 3, Emotion, Reality, and Ownership, Craig Derksen
Chapter 4, Embracing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir's Responsive Ethics, Maren Wehrle
Chapter 5, The Personalistic Attitude: Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein on Empathy as the Intuition of the Person as Value, Dermot Moran
Chapter 6, The role of empathy in the affective twist of Husserl's critique of an axiological and practical reason, Carlos Lobo
Chapter 7Phenomenology as Reverence: The Role of Reverence in the Phenomenological Method of Dietrich von Hildebrand, Alexander Montes
Chapter 8, "Against" empathy: from the isolated self to intersubjectivity in Martin Heidegger's thinking, and the consequences for health care, Francesca Brencio
Chapter 9, Being (n)one of us: The ethical and the body, Henning Nörenberg
Chapter 10, Tomasello, Husserl, and the Cognitive Foundations of Morality, Andrea Staiti and Stefano Vincini
Chapter 11, Fiat cura, et pereat mundus: Husserl's Phenomenology of Care and Commitment, Nicolas de Warren
Chapter 12, On the problem of the idealization of empathy and ethics, Magnus Englander and Susi Ferrarello
Chapter 13, Sharing and other illusions - Asymmetry in 'moments of meeting', Joona Taipale
Chapter 14, Thinking With the Heart: From the Responsiveness of the Flesh to the Ethics of Responsibility, Elodie Boublil
Chapter 15, What is moral about empathy? Some considerations about the link between empathy and moral judgment, Manuel Camassa
Chapter 16, Embodiment, Empathy, and the Call to Compassion: Engendering Care and Respect for 'the Other' in a More-Than-Human World, Scott D. Churchill
Chapter 17, Fictional Empathy, Imagination, and Knowledge of Value, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Chapter 18, Affective depth and value. On Theodor Lipps's theory of aesthetic empathy, Jannik M. Hansen and Tone Roald
Chapter 19, Music and Empathic Spaces in Therapy and Improvisation, Jannik Mosekjær Hansen, Simon Høffding and Joel Krueger
Chapter 20, To step into the life of others. Professional action, empathy and an ethics of engagement, Eva Schwarz
Chapter 21, An Empathy-Based Phenomenological Ethic for Gaming, Michael Agostinelli
Chapter 22, Empathy, alterity, morality, Dan Zahavi
About the author
Magnus Englander is phenomenological psychologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Health & Society at Malmö University. His research is situated within the interdisciplinary research context on the topic of health and society. Englander's phenomenological research covers interdisciplinary perspectives such as social psychology, social psychiatry, and social cognition. He served for five years as the book review editor of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and is the author of multiple articles on phenomenological psychology. He is the volume editor of Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry.
Susi Ferrarello is assistant professor at California State University, East Bay. She writes for Psychology Today. Among her publications there are novels, poetry, and academic books on philosophy, including Bioethics and Emotions, Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy, The Ethics of Lived Experience: A Phenomenology and Husserl's Ethics and Practical Intentionality.
