Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. From 2001 to 2007 he served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, and he is currently co-editor in chief of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. In his systematic work, Zahavi has mainly been investigating the nature of selfhood, self-consciousness, and intersubjectivity. His most important publications include Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (Kluwer, 1996), Self-awareness and Alterity (Northwestern University Press, 1999), Husserl's Phenomenology (Stanford University Press, 2003), Subjectivity and Selfhood (MIT Press, 2005), and, with Shaun Ghallagher, The Phenomenological Mind (Routledge, 2008).
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Introduction
Part I: The Experiential Self
1: Conflicting perspectives on self
2: Consciousness, self-consciousness, and selfhood
3: Transparency and anonymity
4: Subjectivity or selfhood
5: Self and diachronic unity
6: Pure and poor
7: A multidimensional account
Part II: Empathic Understanding
8: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
9: Empathy and projection
10: Phenomenology of empathy
11: Empathy and social cognition
12: Subjectivity and otherness
Part II: The Interpersonal Self
13: The self as social object
14: Shame
15: You, me, and we
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