{"product_id":"one-unlike-the-other-michael-f-andrews-9781438499291","title":"One (Un)Like the Other: Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence from Husserl to Derrida","description":"\u003ci\u003eOne (Un)Like the Other\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the question, \"What are the conditions of possibility that make genuine knowledge of other persons--and, therefore, love--possible?\" By providing an original interpretive framework for exploring ethics in relation to empathy and transcendence from multiple perspectives in continental philosophy, empathy is described as a trace of what remains essentially and irreducibly \"other\" in every act of givenness. The use of the phenomenological method places \"\u003ci\u003eEinf?hlung\u003c\/i\u003e theory\" in its rich historical context, beginning with Husserl and the early phenomenologists and extending to contemporary issues that explore \"otherness\" in light of consciousness, gender, embodiment, community, intentionality, emotions, intersubjectivity, values, language, and apophatic discourse. The implications of recasting \"empathy\" in an interpretive and dialogical model of reciprocity envision new paradigms of understanding ethics as an infinite playing field. No longer subservient to metaphysics and ontology, empathy is described as an act of infinite concern, a \"hermeneutics of suspicion\" that transcends epistemological theory and ethical command. Drawing on Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and others, this study presents an examination and expansion of empathy as an encounter with otherness in its most radical and transcendent forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael F. Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438499299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438499291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Michael F. Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45934270054655,"sku":"9781438499291","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94eec003-6abd-41b7-a2a0-ccf2e2195f85.jpg?v=1721790762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-unlike-the-other-michael-f-andrews-9781438499291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}