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• The Chicago Empathy Project is Live!

  By Lou Agosta on September 14, 2011 • ( 3 )

  The commitment of the Chicago Empathy Project (CEP) is to expand the application of empathy in human relatedness. In particular, the commitment is to provide an opening for the exchange of ideas in a context of empathic human relations by… Read More ›

• Live from Division 32 (the Humanistic Psychology Conference, Chicago)! Empathy and Existential Psychotherapy

  By Lou Agosta on April 15, 2011

  And here is the presentation delivered Sunday April 17, 2011: CHPCases20110306 Empathy is fundamental to an account of the dynamics of emotions in that empathy is responsible for a person’s emotional equilibrium, homeostasis, balance. Speaking in the first person, without… Read More ›

• Live from the Humanistic Psychology Conference (Div 32)! A Heideggerian Approach to Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on April 14, 2011 • ( 1 )

  This is the presentation in PowerPoint (PPT) format on Heidegger’s Special Hermeneutic of Empathy here: SHPAgostaEmpathy20101214 [click to download] as delivered at the Conference on Humanistic Psychology (Chicago) sponsored by the Chicago School of Professional psychology… According to Heidegger (Being… Read More ›

• Empathy is the new love – and what that means!?

  By Lou Agosta on April 10, 2011 • ( 1 )

  You know how in the world of high fashion grey is the new black? Well, empathy is the new love. Okay, enough with the tenuous humor. What does this mean? Culturally? Politically? Psychodynamically? Polemically? Critically? Culturally, the context is a… Read More ›

• Variations on Empathy IN TREATMENT

  By Lou Agosta on March 1, 2011

  Your psychotherapy session is now a major HBO Miniseries, In Treatment. Mine too. Two obvious questions occur. One for prospective clients, one for therapists. If I go to see a therapist about some personal issues and problems, is this what… Read More ›

• Empathy in the Context of Psychotherapy (Talk Therapy)

  By Lou Agosta on February 19, 2011

  Absent a gracious and generous listening (empathy), psychotherapy is hard to distinguish from a dental procedure, probing sensitive, tender spots with sharp instruments. Empathy makes all the difference. If a person is going to express difficult and sensitive personal content,… Read More ›

• Empathy in Context …

  By Lou Agosta on May 4, 2010

  

  I am humbled by the comments of my colleagues, friends, and associates on Empathy in the Context of Philosophy. “An insightful and provocative exploration of a topic that has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves and the… Read More ›

• Heidegger on the Emotions in the Rhetoric of Aristotle

  By Lou Agosta on April 5, 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  In BEING AND TIME, Heidegger famously notes that the analysis of the affects (pathe) has taken barely one step forward since book II of Aristotle’s RHETORIC (H139). This Hot Link is an essay on this subject published in Philosophy Today… Read More ›

• The Comparison between Empathy and Taste (Aesthetic) In Kant’s Third Critique

  By Lou Agosta on February 8, 2010 • ( 3 )

  This post explores the parallel – the analogy – between empathy and taste. Such a parallel is justified by invoking the tradition in which empathy is made the basis of aesthetics. Instead of regarding this basis as a historical confusion, the… Read More ›

• Empathy and Intersubjectivity – the Legacy

  By Lou Agosta on January 23, 2010

  As noted on the first page of the attached article, “intersubjectivity” is understood in the article to mean our interrelated being together with one another in the interhuman world of regard for and sensitivity to the feelings of other individuals… Read More ›