«The present collection of papers aims to offer a first pass at a rediscovery of phenomenological axiology and it does so following a recent trend that has blown the dust off some of the key works and issues in this lesser-known area of phenomenological research (De Monticelli 2015, 2017, 2021; Drummond 2021; and Staiti 2020). Taken together, these texts offer a vivid and fascinating picture of the several problems and figures involved in the articulation of a phenomenological axiology. They discuss thinkers as complex and diverse as Husserl, Scheler, Stein, Sartre, and von Hildebrand and contribute to shed light on various aspects of their work on value. In addition, the contributions of this special issue directly engage with the current analytic discussions on the nature of emotions (e.g., Mulligan, De Monticelli, Tappolet, Nussbaum, Solomon, Drummond, etc.) as well as moral theorists such as R. M. Hare. Overall, they pave the way for future research and set the stage for what has the potential to become a renaissance of phenomenological value-theory, an approach that the editors of this issue hope will come to be recognized as a solid and legitimate option in its own right in contemporary philosophy...» (From the introduction)