#1224 Dan Zahavi - Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. Dan Zahavi. He's a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. And today we're talking about his book being We, Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology.

So Dr. Zahavi, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. It's my pleasure as well. So let me first ask you, what is phenomenological sociology, which is basically the framework you apply in your book?

Well, I guess, I guess my one might give different uh answers. So I mean a historical answer would would basically point back to the work of Alfred Schütz, who is often recognized as the founder of phenological sociology, and so what he did in the in the early 30s was to try to solve specific problems that he thought could be found in the sociology of Weber by using resources from Husserl's phenomenology, especially Husserl's theory of intentionality. So again, I think historically speaking it was an attempt to basically engage with with foundational problems in sociology, but using, again, resources, tools, approaches that one finds in phonological philosophy.

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