L. Agosta 
A Rumor of Empathy 
Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy

A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being.

Table of Content

Introduction: Rewriting the Definition of Empathy 1. A Rumor of Empathy in Hume’s Many Uses of Sympathy 2. A Rumor of Empathy in Kant 3. From a Rumor of Empathy to a Scandal of Empathy in Lipps 4. Rewriting Empathy in Freud 5. Rewriting Empathy in Max Scheler 6. Husserl’s Rewriting of Empathy in Husserl Conclusion

About the author

Lou Agosta teaches Empathy in the History and Systems of Philosophy and Psychology at Argosy University, USA. He is the author of Empathy in the Context of Philosophy on a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to empathy. See www.a Rumor Of Empathy.com.