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Envy, Powerlessness, and the Feeling of Self-Worth

From the book Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World

  • Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698787-015

Abstract

While standard definitions of envy tend to focus on the coveted good or the envied rival, this paper describes envy by reflecting on the envious self and its feelings. The paper begins by describing envy and establishing its key features and objects. It presents envy as an emotion of self-assessment which necessarily involves a sense of powerlessness and a feeling of one’s own diminishing value as a person. The second section illustrates the link between envy and the feeling of self-worth by exploring one of its most radical manifestations: the phenomenon of existential envy.

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From the book
Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World
Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World

Chapters in this book (27)

Frontmatter
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
From Empathy to Intersubjectivity: The Phenomenological Approach
Methodological and metaphysical issues
Philosophy as a Fallible Science
Back to Husserl. Reclaiming the Traditional Philosophical Context of the Phenomenological ‘Problem’ of the Other: Leibniz’s “Monadology”
Plural Absolutes? Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on Being-In-a-Shared-World and its Metaphysical Implications
Egological Reduction and Intersubjective Reduction
Pathological Reduction and Hermeneutics of the Normal and the Pathological: the Convergence between Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem
The experience of self and other
Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the World-Orienting Other
Self: Temporality, Finitude and Intersubjectivity
Towards Self-divided Subjectivity. Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological- Ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity
Phenomenology of the Inapparent and Michel Henry’s Criticism of the Noematic Presentation of Alterity
Perception, emotion, and trust
Listening to Others: Music and the Phenomenology of Hearing
(Un)learning to see others. Perception, Types, and Position-Taking in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Envy, Powerlessness, and the Feeling of Self-Worth
Social Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Experience
Trauma, Language, and Trust
The social world: empathy, morality, and metapolitics
Empathy, Sympathetic Respect, and the Foundations of Morality
Tolerance: A Phenomenological Approach
Anger, Hatred, Prejudice. An Aristotelian Perspective
Habit, Attention and Affection: Husserlian Inflections
Die äusserste Feindschaft: Heidegger, Anti-Judaism, and the War to End All Wars
Heidegger’s Metapolitics: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and the Volk
Index
Erratum
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