Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story telling, literature, and self psychology, rescuing empathy from the margins and revealing its role in the understanding of the other and human community.

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Lou Agosta is a psychotherapist in private practice in Chicago (USA). He teaches at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University where he delivers curriculum on the History and Systems of Psychology. He has taught philosophy at Roosevelt University, Loyola University, DePaul University, St. Xavier College, Oakton Community College, USA.

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List of Figures Series Editor's Preface Preface Acknowledgements Introduction A Heideggerian Interpretation of Empathy Delivering Heidegger's Hermeneutic of Empathy Empathy Between Death and the Other The Roundtrip from Hermeneutics to Intentionality Empathy from Periphery to Foundation Empathy as Vicarious Introspection in Psychoanalysis Notes Bibliography Index