EMPATHY AND BEING-FOR-ANOTHER. HUSSERL AND SARTRE BEFORE THE PROBLEM OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY

In this paper, I discuss at length the phenomenology of intersubjectivity put forward by Husserl and Sartre, focusing on the concepts of empathy and being-for-others. Contrary to the main opinion, I refuse the solipsist objection addressed to Husserl, and I argue that it is Sartre's description that gives rise to such an objection, insofar as he describes the consciousness of another subject as a form of self-consciousness as an "object" (for "other"). I finish pointing to some guidelines to convert Husserl's analysis of the apprehension of other subjects into a fully-fledged phenomenology of communication.