In his recently published book Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy and Shame the Danish philosopher and phenomenologist Dan Zahavi synthesizes and develops theories about selfhood and intersubjectivity that he has been pursuing since the early 1990s. The book is particularly interesting for those who have been following Zahavi’s voluminous and important work for some time now and this, I think, for two main reasons. The first reason has to do with the share impact that Zahavi’s attempts to bring classic phenomenology to work in better understanding subjectivity, and a number of related fundamental concepts, has had, not only in the field of phenomenology itself, but also in analytical philosophy of mind, cognitive science and other related fields. The “phenomenological proposal”, as Zahavi’s views and analyses are sometimes simply referred to outside the scholarly circles of phenomenology, has not only been widely read and received, it has also given rise to a lot of criticism and misunderstandings that he tries to respond to and sort out in the present book. To follow the way the author handles various attempts of either trying to show that the phenomenological proposal has misunderstood the basic questions and concepts at hand in analysing selfhood and intersubjectivity, or, that it really only amounts to spelling out very basic features that are obvious and unhelpful in understanding the true complexity of these phenomena, is very instructive and educating. One can learn a lot from the way this book presents and relates a vast number of different positions on selfhood and sociality and the way the scholars in question have responded to (or ought to have responded to) the phenomenological proposal. The second reason why it is so interesting to read this particular book, having followed Zahavi’s publications for a while, is that it represents a more recent phase of his work with new themes and aims in view than one finds in Self-Awareness and Alterity from 1999 or Subjectivity and Selfhood from