Abstract:This essay locates Ulysses in a shift in the history of philosophy: from before the 1920s, when feeling another person’s feelings was thought possible, to after the 1930s, when the privacy of other minds was widely accepted. By remembering that “empathy” used to mean not compassion but actual access to the emotions of another, and by resituating Ulysses in this intellectual history, I reinterpret one of the central puzzles of the novel: what happens when Bloom and Stephen meet? I focus on the “Eumaeus” episode and argue that there is a moment between them that can be understood to be empathy in the older, stranger sense, when Stephen feels Bloom’s feelings. I offer this reading as an alternative interpretation of their connection that does not rely on Homeric parallels, and as a case study for how literature can chart the tectonic movements of paradigm shifts.

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《尤利西斯》中的同理心和其他思想

摘要：本文将尤利西斯置于哲学史上的一个转变中：从 1920 年代之前，人们认为感受他人的感受是可能的，到 1930 年代之后，他人思想的隐私被广泛接受。通过记住“同理心”过去的意思不是同情而是实际接触他人的情感，并通过将尤利西斯重新置于这段思想史中，我重新解释了小说的核心谜题之一：布鲁姆和斯蒂芬相遇时会发生什么？我专注于“Eumaeus”这一集，并认为当斯蒂芬感受到布鲁姆的感受时，他们之间有一个时刻可以被理解为更老的、陌生人意义上的同理心。我提供这种阅读作为对它们之间联系的另一种解释，不依赖于荷马的相似之处，