Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles from March 2005

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology archives from March 2005

Revamping Sartre's original project: freedom's narcissistic wound.(Jean Paul Sartre)
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT This essay is divided into three parts. In the first, I develop a new interpretation of Sartre's notion of an original project, or original choice, by emending his initial position in Being and Nothingness, and by extrapolating...

Seeing oneself in the mirror: critical reflections on the visual experience of the reflected self.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Merleau-Ponty, in his well-known essay, "Eye and Mind," startlingly comments: "A Cartesian does not see himself in the mirror; he sees a dummy, an 'outside,' which, he has every reason to believe, other people see in the very same...

Assessed danger-to-others as a reason for psychiatric hospitalization: an investigation of patients' perspectives.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT This study investigated subjective experiences of nine men who had been psychiatrically hospitalized upon being assessed as "dangerous-to-others-due-to-a-mental-illness." Using a phenomenological interviewing approach, researchers...

The art of life.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Kekes, J. (2002). The art of life. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 267 pp., ISBN 0-8014-4006-8, $29.95 (hardcover). John Kekes begins the preface of his book with a quotation from Plato's The Republic: "What is at stake is far...

Karl Jaspers: A Biography--Navigations in Truth.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Suzanne Kirkbright, Karl Jaspers: A Biography--Navigations in Truth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). 360 pp. $35. This full-length biography has a predecessor in the small but very rich and thoughtful Rowohlt monograph by Hans...

The Call And the Response.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Chretien, J.-L. (2004). The call and the response (A. Davenport, Trans.). New York: Fordham University Press, ISBN 0-8232-2298-5,188 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8232-2297-7, 188 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Is it possible to "radicalize"...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2005... Augier, M., March, J. (2004). Models of a man: Essays in memory of Herbert A. Simon. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 552 pp., ISBN 0-262-01208, $45.00 (hardback). Blumberg, F. C. (Ed.),...