The volume gathers together over twenty contributions that emerged from a conference held in in
honour of Dermot Moran on the occasion of his retirement from University College Dublin. The
book explores the contribution of phenomenology to empathy intersubjectivity affectivity and
the constitution of the cultural and social world from both a historical and an applied
philosophical perspective. Theoretical and methodological differences in approach
notwithstanding phenomenologists have converged in the recognition that self and others are
fundamentally related and have provided fine-grained accounts of the origin forms and
implications of such relationship. The volume critically reconstructs and further develops
central aspects of this body of research within a pluralistic framework. It offers a renewed
investigation of the work of classical phenomenologists like Husserl Heidegger Sartre and
Merleau-Ponty as well as an original application of phenomenological concepts and theories to
contemporary discussions on intentionality culture emotions and morality. The book provides
insights for scholars in phenomenological philosophy as well as in philosophy of mind and
interpersonal and social experience.
