Abstract:The notion of empathy as feeling one's way into the other is criticized in the works of Heidegger for its Cartesian assumption of the ontological gulf between self and other. The anti-Cartesian counterposition of a self, embedded in a world prereflectively shared with familiar others, however, raises questions regarding understanding the stranger, as the self is absorbed in her prejudgments. Yet, the self in the works of Heidegger is more originarily constituted by unhomeliness. As essentially a stranger to it… Show more
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