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Dan Zahavi
Professor of Philosophy at University of Copenhagen and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of consciousness, self-consciousness, selfhood, intersubjectivity, and social cognition from a phenomenological perspective. He is author and editor of more than 25 volumes including Husserl’s Phenomenology (Stanford 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press 2005), The Phenomenological Mind together with S. Gallagher (Routledge 2008), and most recently Self and Other (OUP 2014). He is co-editor in chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Self and other

Exploring subjectivity, empathy, and shame

Dan Zahavi

Can you be a self on your own or only together with others? Is selfhood a built-in feature of experience or rather socially constructed? How do we at all come to understand others? Does empathy amount to and allow for a distinct experiential acquaintance with others, and if so, what does that tell us about the nature of selfhood and social cognition? Does a strong emphasis on the first-personal character of consciousness prohibit a satisfactory account of intersubjectivity or is the former rather a necessary requirement for the latter? Engaging with debates and findings in classical phenomenology, in philosophy of mind and in various empirical disciplines, Dan Zahavi's new book Self and Other offers answers to these questions.

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