Introduction. Subjectivity and Emotion in the Individual and the Group

Abstract

On February 28, 2019, the doors opened for the 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society. As is customary, this meeting was a national conference with invited keynote speakers and other international guests and participants. This meeting was noteworthy for at least two reasons other than the anniversary itself. First, it was held in the relatively academically insignificant Danish city of Vejle. Second, it was hosted by an innovation and entrepreneurship education department at a university college of applied science, and not, according to custom, by a philosophy department at a major Danish university. The three keynote speakers, Dan Zahavi from the University of Copenhagen, Achim Stephan from the University of Osnabrück, and Helena De Preester from Ghent University, have all contributed to this volume. In fact, it was during the conference itself that Asger Sørensen, the chairman of the Danish Philosophical Society, and I decided to propose devoting an issue of the Danish Yearbook of Philosophy to the same theme explored in the conference: “Subjectivity in the Individual and the Group.” “Emotion” was added later, as we were preparing the call for papers, because I wanted to indicate a focus that had clearly been emerging at the conference itself. The question of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and sociality was largely discussed with reference to emotionality in general, and social or shared emotions in particular. When I wrote these pages, I was eager to include a list of people who should be mentioned, people toward whom I feel gratitude for helping to make the