Did Edith Stein ever apply her notion of empathy to art or aesthetics? Of the three writers we've been discussing, I doubt that any of them, other than Lipps, set their notion of empathy within a complete survey of human psychology. Worringer was trying to develop a principle of art history, while Lee was just making artsy chatter.
If you agree with St. Edith, Boris, could you give us an example of when "the use of one's mental powers" cannot be "reduced to a mere mode of feeling? >Husserl's student Edith Stein described Einfuhlung (empathy) as a blind mode of knowledge that reaches the experience of the other without possessing it. Einfuhlung is not the same as Verstehen or human understanding, which, as Dilthey pointed out, requires the use of one's mental powers, and cannot be reduced to a mere mode of feeling. To understand is not to apprehend something empathetically. Whereas understanding is reflective, empathy is prereflective. ____________________________________________________________ Put your loved ones in good hands with quality senior assisted living. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxVLPY8sYp0F6oLSivntgPfVf bbcpnz06MuONoXrTP4z8lhNfxzLSg/
