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Schnegg, Michael ORCID: 0000-0001-9240-8836 and Breyer, Thiemo . Empathy Beyond the Human. The Social Construction of a Multispecies World. Ethnos. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1469-588X

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Abstract

In Namibia, Damara pastoralists share the environment with many beings including elephants, tricksters, and winds. While the importance of other-than-human subjectivity is well established, its methodological, epistemological, and ontological challenges are less settled. To address them, we combine expertise from anthropology and philosophy to ask how this world becomes what it is, using Edith Steins's notion of empathy (Einfuhlung) as a theoretical guide. This allows us to show how Damara people use empathy to understand how different 'others' experience the world. We identify the basis for this in a 'pre-reflective other-awareness', which amounts to the implicit bodily awareness of the other's presence, and its influence on the situation and on oneself. At the same time, empathy differs, and only those other-than-humans with whom people fully empathise add perspectives that build an intersubjective reality that is different from any world in which those other-perspectives would not exist.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schnegg, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9240-8836 UNSPECIFIED Breyer, Thiemo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-666677
DOI:	10.1080/00141844.2022.2153153
Journal or Publication Title:	Ethnos
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1469-588X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ELEPHANTS; VARIETIES; KNOWLEDGE; DARK Multiple languages Anthropology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66667