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Dan Zahavi, Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology, Oxford University Press, 2025, 240pp., $100.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780192894489.

Reviewed by Zachary J. Joachim, Denison University

I’m late to meet you at the restaurant. You brush aside my apology on arrival, since we’re friends, and we sit down, get drinks, eventually food. On your way back from the bathroom, you sit back down saying, “We just bombed a school”. Taking in the news, we decry the state of the nation domestically, and the evil it’s wreaking abroad. “I just don’t know what this country is anymore; it doesn’t represent me.” You disagree with my claim that it doesn’t represent me, and we argue. Through argument, the conversation spills over into other matters of life, and when...