by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Stein discusses and criticizes the various theories of empathy that were current at her time (and that perhaps are still held by many today). While she finds many insights developed by thinkers, such as Lipps and Scheler, that are helpful for the understanding of...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Cixousian writing is constantly bent back onto itself and thus may seem confusing since it is not ordinary prosaic prose but already poetic, and thus (seeming unwittingly) showing what it is about. She uses neologisms, metaphors, puns, parodies, jests, and...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
De Beauvoir’s famous book, The Second Sex (2011), was the first major study of gender politics. The book was received as scandalous and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (list of prohibited books) by the Vatican Catholic Church. De Beauvoir was described as...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
An important notion is Gadamer’s explication of prejudice as human understanding. According to him, all knowledge consists of prejudice, literally pre-judgments. However, in modern scientific context prejudice is seen as the opposite of sound judgment. The significant...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
What is “lived experience” (Erlebnis)? This is an important question because phenomenological human science begins in lived experience and eventually turns back to it. Dilthey (1985) has suggested that in its most basic form lived experience involves our immediate,...
