Abstract
Recent years have seen growing interest in the work of Edith Stein (1891–1942), particularly in her theory of empathy. This is due not only to the fact that Stein’s work intersects significantly with contemporary research on empathy, but also because Stein’s phenomenological writings shed new light on problems concerning the nature of self, affectivity, and sociality. In this Introduction, we aim at summarizing some important issues surrounding empathy before introducing Stein’s work and the relevance of her philosophical contribution as developed in the original essays collected in this volume.
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Notes
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Most of the essays collected in this volume were originally presented at the conference Edith Stein and Phenomenology held at University College Dublin in May 2015. We are very grateful to all the participants in the conference and to all the authors of this volume for their engagement and interest in carrying out a philosophical exploration of Stein’s phenomenology. We also wish to acknowledge and express our gratitude to the funding bodies that have supported the preparation of this volume: UCD Newman Fellowship, funded by the Catrechetics Trust, and the Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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“No doubt a tiger or lion feels sympathy for the sufferings of its own young, but not for any other animal” (Darwin 1981: 82). With strictly social animals (e.g. animals that associate together) – Darwin points out – the feeling will be more or less connected to all the associated members. See also Darwin 2009: 228. For an analysis of Darwin’s account of sympathy see Wispé 1991: 31–42.
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“The more a part of the body signifies what it should signify, the more beautiful it is; inner sympathy alone, feeling and the transposition of our entire human self into the figure we touch, is the true teacher and instrument of beauty” (Herder 2002a: 78).
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See, for instance, This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humankind (1774) in Herder 2002b.
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Stein 1986: 172.
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Wilhelm (he used ‘William’ in the USA) Stern (1871–1938) taught in Breslau from 1897 to 1916. In 1916, he was appointed Professor of Psychology at the University of Hamburg, but, as a person of Jewish descent, he had to emigrate to the Netherlands, and then to the USA, after the National Socialists took power in Germany in 1933. Stern subsequently taught at Duke University and died there in 1938. He was, with Clara Stern, the author of Psychologie der frühen Kindheit (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1914; reprinted and expanded in many editions). See J. T. Lamiell 2010.
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Hönigswald was Jewish and was eventually dismissed from teaching by the Nazis in 1933. He was the teacher of Norbert Elias. He published primarily in the area of Neo-Kantian epistemology. Stein mentions his interest in the psychology of cognition, see his article, Hönigswald 1913.
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Indeed, the eventual decree explicitly mentions Stein’s efforts. See ‘Erlaß des Preußischen Ministers für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung vom 21. Februar 1920’, 50 Jahre Habilitation von Frauen in Deutschland. Eine Dokumentation über den Zeitraum von 1920–1970, ed. Elizabeth Boedeker (Göttingen: Schwartz 1974).
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The Psychological Institute of the University of Würzburg had been founded in 1896 by Oswald Külpe and in 1903 began publication of its journal, Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie. The Würzburg school generally defended the cognitive nature of thinking and rejected its basis on sensation and association. Külpe was a student of Wilhelm Wundt and his students included Max Wertheimer, Kaspar Ach, and Henry Watt.
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Stein 1986a: 217.
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E. Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen, 2 Bande (Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1900–1901). A critical edition, which includes Husserl’s written emendations and additions to his own copies (Handexemplar), has appeared in the Husserliana series (Husserl 1975 and 1984). The only English translation is Husserl 2001.
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See Stein 1986a: 218.
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Reinach had completed his doctorate under Theodor Lipps at Munich before moving to Göttingen in 1909 to complete his Habilitation with Husserl. He was a brilliant exponent of phenomenology but sadly lost his life in Flanders in the Great War in 1917. His major work published in his lifetime was Die Apriorischen Grundlagen des Bürgerlichen Rechtes, published in Husserl’s Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung in 1913, now in Reinach 1983. In April 1914, he participated with Husserl in the 6th Congress of Experimental Psychology in Göttingen. He gave an important lecture on phenomenology in Marburg in 1914, later published as Über Phänomenologie, now in Reinach 1989. He is renowned for his work on states of affairs (Sachverhalte), social acts and speech acts, as well as his account of the a priori. According to Stein, he was a brilliant teacher. Originally Jewish, he converted to Christianity shortly before his death on 16th November 1917. Stein assisted in editing Reinach’s collected works.
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Reinach 1989b. See Loidolt 2010.
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See Bello 2008.
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See Bell 2011.
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Scheler, Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik. Neuer Versuch der Grundlegung eines ethischen Personalismus, Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung vol. 1 (1913); vol. 2 (1916), now in Scheler 1954.
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See especially Stein 2010: 42ff. English trans: 27–34.
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Georg Elias Müller (1850–1934) was born near Leipzig, where he studied from 1868–1869. He then moved to Berlin to continue his studies, but soon volunteered for the Prussian army. In 1871, he returned to his studies, moving in 1872 to work with Hermann Lotze (1817–1881) at Göttingen. He was appointed to a position in Göttingen in 1876, where he stayed, for the most part, for the next 40 years. Drawing on Hermann Ebbinghaus’ techniques with nonsense syllables, he developed a theory of memory, in which forgetting is caused by interference from later-learned material, rather than from the “fading away” of an original memory trace. He also espoused a version of Heinrich Ewald Hering’s (1866–1948) “opponent-process” theory of colour vision, the main rival to Hermann von Helmholtz’s (1821–1894) “trichromatic” theory. Müller appears to have been quite hostile to Husserl and never mentions him in his publications, see Spiegelberg 1972: 34–35.
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Brentano and his students played an important role here. See Stumpf 1873.
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See especially Mulligan 1995: 225 n. 3.
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Erich R. Jaensch completed his doctorate with G. E. Müller (1850–1934) in 1908. He conducted research on visual acuity and eidetic imagery. He later became a defender of Nazi racial types in the study of personality and, on that basis, took over the editorship of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie. He died in 1940. He corresponded with Husserl and sent him his early studies on perception of faces.
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See Schapp 1976. Schapp studied with Rickert in Freiburg and Dilthey and Simmel in Berlin before going in 1905 to Husserl at Göttingen where he completed his doctorate in 1909. He subsequently had a career in law and published on legal philosophy and the philosophy of history. His book on perception is quoted approvingly by Merleau-Ponty 1962: 229–230; Fr. 265.
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Jean Héring, born in Alsace, studied under Husserl at Göttingen, writing a dissertation on the a priori in Lotze, and later published an important essay on essence, Bemerkungen über das Wesen, die Wesenheit und die Idee, for the Jahrbuch in 1921. He later studied theology and Hering presented his pioneering thesis on phenomenology and religion, Phénoménologie et philosophie religieuse, for the licentiate degree at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg He wrote a number of texts on dreaming, see Héring 1946, 1947, and 1959. For a brief biography, see Ingarden 1967. See also Dupont 2015.
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See Katz 1911. A revised and expanded edition was published in 1930 as Der Aufbau der Farbwelt (The Construction of the World of Colour, 1930). In the Introduction to the English translation, Katz records that his empirical methods have now found general acceptance in psychology. He opposed an atomistic approach which was welcomed by Gestalt psychologists.
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See Salice 2015.
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See Schuhmann 1991.
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Husserl published an In Memoriam for Reinach in the Frankfurter Zeitung on 6th December 1917, and a second, “Adolf Reinach †,” in Kant-Studien vol. 23 (1919), pp. 147–149, reprinted in Husserliana XXV, ed. Hans R. Sepp and Thomas Nenon (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), pp. 296–303; trans. Lucinda A. Vandervort Brettler, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 35 (1975), pp. 571–574.
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Scheler had published the first edition in 1913 as Zur Phänomenologie und Theorie der Sympathiegefühle und von Liebe und Hass. Mit einem Anhang über den Grund zur Annahme der Existenz des fremden Ich (Halle: Niemeyer, 1913). It was reprinted in an expanded edition in 1923. Stein had made use of the 1913 edition for her Empathy book.
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See Stein 2000.
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Cfr. Merleau-Ponty 1962: 31.
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Cfr. Husserl 1989.
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A new edition of the Ideas II and Ideas III manuscripts are in preparation by the Husserl Archives in Cologne, edited by Dirk Fonfara, as E. Husserl, Urfassung der Ideen II und Ideen III, Materialenband (Dordrecht: Springer, in press). See also Sawicki 1997.
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I am grateful to Peter Andras Varga for drawing this essay to my attention in his lecture, “Edith Stein als Assistentin von Edmund Husserl : Versuch einer Bilanz im Spiegel von Husserls Verhältnis zu seinen Assistenten. Im Anhang mit einem unveröffentlichten Brief Edmund Husserls über Edith Stein” [DM].
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See Stein, 1986b: 226–248.
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Husserl writes: “Sollte die akademische Laufbahn für Damen eröffnet werden, so konnte ich sie an allerester Stelle u. aufs Wärmste für die Zulassung zur Habilitation empfehlen”. Husserl 1994: 549.
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The original document is archived in the Georg Misch Nachlass at the Niedersächsische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (shelf mark: Cod. Ms. G. Misch 74); a copy of the letter can be found in the Husserl Archive in Leuven. Husserl writes: “Sehr geehrter Herr Kollege! Fraülein Dr. Stein, welche nach ihrem Doktorat fast 2 Jahre lang als meine wissenschaftliche Assistentin tätig war, wünscht sich Ihnen vorzustellen und in Betreff der Möglichkeiten einer Habilitation in Göttingen Ihren Rat zu erbitten. Gestatten Sie mir nur soviel zu sagen, dass es sich dabei um eine wertvolle Persönlichkeit handelt, die ein gütiges Entgegenkommen verdient. Dass ich ihr nicht eine Meldung zur Habilitation in Freiburg anraten konnte hat, im Vertrauen gesagt, darin seinen Grund, dass in unserer philosophischen Fakultät (die der Göttinger philologisch-historischen Abtheilung entspricht) bereits 3 Dozenten jüdischer Abstammung sind, und ich nicht erwarten kann, dass die Fakultät die Habilitation eines 4ten genehmigen würde. An sich hätte ich mir zur Unterstützung meiner Lehrtätigkeit eine so wertvolle phänomenologische Hilfskraft sehr gewunscht. Frl Stein hat sich auch als Leiterin eigener philosophischer Übungen sehr bewährt. […]. Ihr sehr ergebener E. Husserl”.
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Cfr. Stein 2006. In this work, Stein Adolf Reinach’s theory as found in his The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law (Die apriorischen Grundlagen des burgerlichen Rechts, 1913), in order to account for the social ontology (soziale Ontologie) of the state, of law and of social acts (soziale Akte) generally. See De Vecchi 2015.
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See Gaboriau 2002.
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See Lebech 2015: 147–164.
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Stein 2009.
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Letter to Sr. Adelgundis Jaegerschmid 26th January 1931 in Stein 1993: 82.
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See Ott 1993.
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At an open-air ceremony in Cologne on 1stMay 1987, Pope John Paul II beatified Edith Stein, that is, he declared her worthy of public veneration as a genuinely holy, or blessed, person. In Rome on 11th October 1998 the Pope canonised her. In 1999, Stein was proclaimed one of the patron saints of Europe. The Pope wrote that the “proclamation of Edith Stein as a Co-Patroness of Europe is intended to raise on this Continent a banner of respect, tolerance and acceptance which invites all men and women to understand and appreciate each other, transcending their ethnic, cultural and religious differences in order to form a truly fraternal society”.
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