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(2010) Empathy in the context of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
In Heidegger's Being and Time, the alternative of being with other individuals inauthentically is contrasted with authentically being alone in the face of death, one's own individualizing and inevitable demise. The third choice of authentically being with other human beings is neglected, relegated to a few parenthetical remarks that dismiss empathy (Einfühlung). The possibility of authentic being human with others is delimited but, for the most part, not developed. This chapter gathers together and develops those remarks, applying the basic Heideggerian distinctions of affectedness, understanding, interpretation, assertion and speech to an interpretation and implementation of empathy.
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Agosta, L. (2010). A Heideggerian interpretation of empathy, in Empathy in the context of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 16-29.
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