Emphaty as the foundation of the social sciences and of social life: a reading of Husserl's phenomenology of transcendental intersubjectivity

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Hovedforfatter: Vandenberghe, Frédéric
Publication Date: 2002
Format: Article
Sprog: eng
Source: Repositório Institucional da UnB
Download full: http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/25906
https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-69922002000200016
Summary: 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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