One (Un)Like the Other

Michael F. Andrews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Coeditor (with Antonio Calcagno) of Ethics and Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Edith Stein: Applications and Implications, he was formerly the McNerney-Hanson University Professor of Ethics at the University of Portland and Senior International Research Fellow at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Empathy and the Theory of Transcendental Constitution Introduction1. Husserl's Transcendental Turn: Empathy and the Task of the Phenomenological Reduction2. The Fifth Cartesian Meditation3. The Significance of Empathy as Developed in Ideas II, with Reference to Husserl's Later Works on IntersubjectivityPart Two: Empathy as Reciprocity Introduction4. Max Scheler and the Phenomenology of Human Community5. Edith Stein and the Problem of Empathy6. Embodiment, Temporality, and Emotions in Acts of EmpathyPart Three: A Reversal of the Law of Empathy Introduction7. Martin Heidegger's Critique of Empathy8. Emmanuel Levinas and the Face of the Other9. Jacques Derrida and the Possibility of an Empathic AntipathyPart Four: Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence Introduction10. Gender and Reciprocity11. Empathy and an Ethics of (In)Finite RespectNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"One (Un)Like the Other is both rigorous and creative, offering a new systematic way of understanding the stakes of empathy. It will be an asset to anyone interested in philosophy, particularly Continental philosophy and ethics, psychology, and the role of empathy within both intersubjective experience and interpersonal connections." — CHOICE"This is an excellent, informative, persuasive, and systematic discussion of various European Continental approaches to empathy, understood as the apprehension of the transcendence of the other. The book breaks new ground especially by discussing Derrida and Heidegger in relation to the Husserlian tradition from which Stein emerges. The book is both systematic and historical, following the development of Husserl's views on empathy, through Scheler and Stein, to the critiques of Levinas and Derrida. Andrews shows great command of his material and writes clearly and persuasively about very complex matters." — Dermot Moran, Boston College