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The influence of Max Weber on the concept of empathic understanding (Verstehen) in the psychopathology of Karl Jaspers (2019)

Aragona, Massimiliano (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 283-299
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X19845309

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X19845309

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Psychology Psychopathology Human sciences Methodology Epistemology Philosophy Psychiatry 20th century Jaspers, Karl Weber, Max

This paper explores key concepts in the writings of Weber in the years preceding the publication of the first edition of Karl Jaspers’ Allgemeine Psychopathologie, focusing on the concept of understanding (Verstehen). This is a key hermeneutic concept and is discussed within the larger context of the epistemological and methodological reflections of both authors. They similarly tried to import the understanding within the humanistic disciplines as a rigorous but anti-reductionist scientific method. However, while Weber tried to mix explanation and understanding according to a legal metaphor, Jaspers retained Dilthey’s sharper distinction between explanation in natural sciences and understanding in humanistic sciences. Finally, Jaspers’ understanding is relatively more empathic, while Weber’s understanding is more rationalistic.

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