Experiencing Empathy through Music (after Edith Stein)
The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music June 23, 2026 Jessica Wiskus
Abstract How is it that, at moments of music listening, we might experience the sense of a living subject arising out of the movement of melody? Rather than seek the origin of this phenomenon in an imagined encounter with the person of a composer or performer, this article focuses on the temporal unfolding of melody, reading Edith Stein’s On the Problem of Empathy together with Edmund Husserl’s...