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(1997) Body, text and science, Dordrecht, Springer.
The task of this concluding chapter is to make a beginning. What begins here is a constructive philosophy of empathy that will address several contemporary questions in philosophy of science while drawing on the legacy of Edith Stein. The two preceding chapters have identified key components of that legacy: the priority of bodily life for any hermeneutic endeavor, and the capabilities of egoic following within any program of reading. Wielding those keys, Stein herself unlocked the gate to the goal of establishing the unified basis for natural and cultural sciences alike--the very goal which had eluded Husserl's grasp in the Ideen. Stein's solution appears in her 1919 essay "Psychische Kausalität." That essay funds my critical reappraisal of contemporary psychoanalytic and materialist interpretive programs, as well as my constructive alternative. Before examining psychic causality (psychische Kausalität) according to Stein, let us briefly recall Stein's accounts of bodily life and of empathic egoic following (Einfühlen).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3979-3_6
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Sawicki, M. (1997). Science as literacy, in Body, text and science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 222-267.
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