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Intersubjectivity
Overview
Intersubjectivity describes the shared understanding that emerges from interpersonal interactions.
The term first appeared in social science in the 1970s, and was later incorporated into psychoanalytic theory by George E. Atwood and Robert Stolorow. The term has since been adopted by various fields. In phenomenology, philosophers such as Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein examined intersubjectivity in relation to empathy and experience, while in psychology it is used to analyze how individuals attribute mental states to others and coordinate behavior.
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Philosophers who discussed Intersubjectivity
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Richard McKeon
- Edith Stein
- Antonio Gramsci
- Luce Irigaray
- Edmund Husserl
- Dan Zahavi
- Michel Henry
- Vittorio Hösle
Related ideas
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Analytic philosophy
- Jürgen Habermas
- Intentionality
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Common sense
- Psychology
- Social science
- Empathy
- Continental philosophy
- Edith Stein
- Theory of mind
- Shaun Gallagher
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Phenomenology (psychology)
- Jean Hyppolite
- Solipsism
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Edmund Husserl
- Cartesian Meditations
Place in the tradition
Part of Existentialism.