ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to transform the understanding and reception of social phenomenology as well as to contribute to the contemporary debates in social philosophy, social cognition, and social ontology. It is surely the case that social cognition, social ontology, and collective intentionality do not represent opposing lines of research, and that the respective issues should be deals with side by side. The chapter deals with the main issues of the debate on collective intentionality discussed from the perspective of affectivity and emotions in. Phenomenologists have long recognized affectivity and emotions as the integral building blocks of social reality. The chapter resumes the question of whether dyadic or collective forms of social relations are constituents of our social reality. It deals with empathy not only within the context of ordinary dyadic encounters, but also in the context of non-dyadic or social interaction, social emotions or non-ordinary interpersonal relations in the people relations to the dead, or the chronically ill.
