Self-Awareness and Alterity

Dan Zahavi is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books, including Husserl’s Phenomenology, Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective, Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame, Husserl’s Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy, and Phenomenology: The Basics.

“The first edition of Self-Awareness and Alterity was ahead of its time; twenty years later, the second edition is timely indeed. The arguments in Zahavi’s book, which have been updated and revised throughout, are as fresh and provocative as ever, and the book remains a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the way phenomenological and analytic approaches to the philosophy of mind can enrich one another.” —Steven Crowell, author of Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger"This book has quickly become a classic. Authored by one of today’s most influential phenomenologists, it can be read both as an introduction to Husserl’s mature thought and as an original contribution to the current philosophical debate on the nature of the human self. Extraordinarily well informed, carefully argued, and written in clear and accessible language, Zahavi’s book masterfully defends Husserl against his prejudiced critics and breaks new ground in contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The work will be of equal benefit readers in the analytic and the continental traditions. —Rudolf Bernet, author of Force, Drive, Desire: A Philosophy of Psychoanalysis and coauthor of An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology.PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITIONSelf-Awareness and Alterity "is well organized, clear, and evenhanded, and it advances a thesis that is highly original and convincing, one that should command attention not only from phenomenologists but from any philosopher interested in the topic of self-awareness... There simply is no other work in phenomenology that goes at the problem of self-awareness in such detail and in such a systematic and illuminating way." —Steven Crowell, author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning"This book, significant in its phenomenological detail, shows how phenomenology can contribute important insights that are easily overlooked in both analytic and scientific accounts of human experience." —Shaun Gallagher, author of The Inordinance of Time "An ambitious and original discussion of subjectivity and self-consciousness...accessible, rigorous, and engaging." —Robert Piercey, author of The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty