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Empathy and Other-Directed Intentionality

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The article explores and compares the accounts of empathy found in Lipps, Scheler, Stein and Husserl and argues that the three latter phenomenological thinkers offer a model of empathy, which is not only distinctly different from Lipps’, but which also diverge from the currently dominant models.

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Notes

  1. The arguments in the last few paragraphs are adapted from Zahavi (2011).

  2. I am indebted to two anonymous reviewers for a number of helpful comments.

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Zahavi, D. Empathy and Other-Directed Intentionality. Topoi 33, 129–142 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9197-4

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