The texts collected in Phänomenologische Ontologie des Sozialen [The Phenomenological Ontology of the Social] deal with topics of situational identity and their significance for the self-understanding of individuals, for society and political action, as well as with communicative aspects of identity, narrative, ontological, institutional, and collective identity, the phenomenology of place, space, and virtual reality, morality, and law in modern warfare. It is a conceptual and phenomenological examination of these topics through history, contemporary discourses and phenomenology in general, with a focus on the medialization of the social and the political dimension of social ontology.