Edith Stein’s empathy thesis moved phenomenology toward shared intersubjective experience

Evidence

Among those to complain about it early on was Edith Stein, shortly after she finished her PhD thesis on the phenomenology of empathy — a subject that led her to look for connections and bonds between people in a shared exterior environment, not a withdrawn and solitary one. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Orients the reader to empathy (Einfühlung) as a central early phenomenology theme, in contrast to later inward readings of Husserl.
• XREF: connects to: Edith Stein wrote her dissertation on the phenomenology of empathy in 1916. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1190; Shared reality is woven from irreducibly perspectival individual experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 988; Husserl’s late thought abandoned inwardness for a shared social world — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 165

Broader Connections

• Edith Stein wrote her dissertation on the phenomenology of empathy in 1916. #exemplifies (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1190
• Husserl’s late thought abandoned inwardness for a shared social world #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 165
• Shared reality is woven from irreducibly perspectival individual experience #expands (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 988