Abstract

Phenomenology always seeks to bracket, in order to achieve personalistic aspect of human being. We gain access to others through empathy by way of appresenting the transcendental realm which is enriched through the incorporation of the alter ego into its fold. In this paper primarily an attempt is made to examine and understand how Edmund Husserl tries to establish a relationship between subject and subject by emphasizing his concept of the ‘I’ and the ‘other’, a type of community which is intersubjective in nature. As a Husserlian phenomenologist, J. N. Mohanty refers to the concept of cultural identity in order to explain Husserl’s concept of the self and its others. In this regard Mohanty emphasizes the concept of the ‘home culture’ and the ‘other culture’. This paper will try to explore Mohanty’s explication of cultural identity in terms of authentic empathy that itself is a disclosure of a relationship between the subject and its other on a subject –subject basis.