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  - Zum Problem der Einfühlung
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title: On the Problem of Empathy
author:
  - Edith Stein
year: 1917
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  - empathy
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  - philosophy
description: A phenomenological study of how we experience other people’s feelings and consciousness, and how empathy contributes to our understanding of persons and embodied selves.
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Originally published in German in 1917. The cover is for the ICS Publications edition translated by Waltraut Stein.

Sources: [edition record](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2184118M/On_the_problem_of_empathy); [original publication](https://catalog.coloradocollege.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=906209).