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10Empathy and the Self: Constitutive or Phenomenal?In Quanta Gauld, Pam Morrison & Veronica Wain (eds.), Promises, Pedagogy and Pitfalls: Empathy’s Potential for Healing and Harm, Brill. pp. 25-34. 2016.The problem of empathy has been typically founded on subjectivist theories of human being. Empathy was adopted into philosophy by the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who interpreted it as the solution to the problem of the foreign ego. Among phenomenologists, whose discipline is foundational to the concept of empathy, there is contention about the notion of empathy as an account of human being with one another. The 20th century philosopher Martin Heidegger was particularly critical of the basis …Read more
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26Dasein and the Question of the Heterogenous Film Viewer: A Commentary on Loht’s Heideggerian Phenomenology of FilmFilm-Philosophy 28 (1): 62-78. 2024.In response to Shawn Loht’s 2017 project delineating a Heideggerian phenomenology of film, Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience, I examine how productive Loht’s Dasein-centric account of the film viewer might be for considering diverse film-viewer experiences. Starting from Loht’s premise that the film–viewer relation is the constitutive ground of filmic disclosure, I raise two concerns regarding Heidegger’s account of Dasein that might obscure an account of the d…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
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Continental Feminism |
Feminist Phenomenology |
Continental Film Theory |
Feminist Aesthetics |
Martin Heidegger |
Luce Irigaray |
Philosophy of Gender |
Gender and Equality |