“Empathy” is said in Many Ways. The Complex Story of the Therm Einfühlung

Authors

  • Angela Ales Bello Università Lateranense - Roma.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/9642

Abstract

In my paper I show the origin and the meaning of the German word Einfühlung, translated in Italian with “empatia” and in English with “empathy”. I underscore the use of the word in phenomenology (E. Husserl and E. Stein) in contrast with the way in which people speak of empathy, that probably comes from the interpretation on empathy given by some psychologists as Lipps and Kohut. I propose to translate Einfühlung in phenomenological sense with entropathy on order to distinguish it from an insufficient description of the intuition of what others live, which is wide spread in common language and in psychology.

Keywords: Einfühlung, Entropathy, Husserl, Phenomenology, Stein

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Published

2022-12-21

How to Cite

Ales Bello, A. (2022). “Empathy” is said in Many Ways. The Complex Story of the Therm Einfühlung. Bollettino Filosofico, 37, 7–19. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/9642

Issue

Vol. 37 (2022): Rethinking Empathy. Between Ethics and Aesthetics

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Focus

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