EMPATHY AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND OF SOCIAL LIFE:

a reading of Husserl’s phenomenology of transcendental intersubjectivity

Autores

  • Frédéric Vandenberghe

Palavras-chave:

Social order, Empathy, Phenomenology, Husserl, Habermas

Resumo

Starting with an overview of possible solutions to the problem of social order, the author presents a non-acritical reconstruction of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology of intersubjectivity as a sympathetic alternative to Habermas’s theory of communicative action. By means of a detailed analysis of the concept of empathy (Einfühlung), he shows that Husserl’s phenomenology of intersubjectivity offers a triple foundation of the sciences. As a warrant of the objectivity of the world, it grounds the natural sciences; as a presupposition of sociality, it founds the social sciences; as mediated by culture, it grounds the social sciences as human sciences.

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Biografia do Autor

Frédéric Vandenberghe

Senior Researcher at the University for Humanist Studies in the Netherlands and visiting professor at the Universidade de Brasília (Winter 2003).

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Vandenberghe, F. (2002). EMPATHY AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND OF SOCIAL LIFE:: a reading of Husserl’s phenomenology of transcendental intersubjectivity. Sociedade E Estado, 17(2). Recuperado de https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sociedade/article/view/4994