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Document Details : Title: Husserl's Evolving Concept of Einfühlung Author(s): BERGO, Bettina Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies Volume: 7 Date: 2023 Pages: 1-35 DOI: 10.2143/EPH.7.0.3291052 Abstract : This is a study of the evolution of Husserl’s conception of Einfühlung, from his early, critical engagement with Theodor Lipps’ psychological analyses, through his elaboration of the tripartite ego, perception, and apperception and the passive syntheses. I consider Husserl’s 1920s’ constitution of the other as analogon of myself, his reflection on the constitution of ever larger social groups through Einfühlung (toward the Monadenallheit). Finally, the enrichment of this concept (Einfühlung) requires discussion of more experimental insights like the primordial ‘carrying over’ from my flesh to that of the other, and the experience Husserl called Ent-fremdung (alienation) and intentional transgression as conditions operative in the relation to the other. I also ponder Husserl’s surprising notes on the fusion of wills, entitled 'The Phenomenological Reduction to the Alter-Ego and to Intersubjectivity', penned in January 1927 as if he were planning an explicit, critical dialogue with Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. |
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