The Prism of the Self Philosophical Essays in Honor of Maurice Natan

This volume contains sOOeen essays written by his students and colleagues in honor of Maurice Natanson. The essays explore some of the diverse themes Professor Natanson has pursued through forty years of teaching and philosophizing in the tradition of exi

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHENOMENOLOGY IN COOPERATION WITH

1HE CENTER FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY Volume 19

Editor: William R. McKenna, Miami University

Editorial Board: David Carr, Emory University Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University J. Claude Evans, Washington University Jose Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University Joseph J. Kockelmans, The Pennsylvania State University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University

Scope The purpose of this series is to foster the development of phenomenological philosophy through creative research. Contemporary issues in philosophy, other disciplines and in culture generally, offer opportunities for the application of phenomenological methods that call for creative responses. Although the work of several generations of thinkers has provided phenomenology with many results with which to approach these challenges, a truly successful response to them will require building on this work with new analyses and methodological innovations.

THE PRISM OF THE SELF PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS IN HONOR OF MAURICE NATANSON

edited by

STEVEN GALT CROWELL Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-90-481-4570-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8408-1

ISBN 978-94-015-8408-1 (eBook)

Printed on acid-free paper

AH Rights Reserved

© 1995 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1995 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover Ist edition 1995 No pact of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

TADLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Foreword .........................................ix

PART I. CONSCIOUSNESS JUDlTI-I BU1LER

Thresholds o[ Melancholy .................................. 3 STEVEN GALT CROWELL

Solipsism (Modalities o[the Strange) .......................... 13 OSBORNE

P. WIGGINS, JR.

Natanson on Phenomenology in Psychiatry . ..................... .31 FRED !{ERSTEN

Notes [rom the Underground: Merleau-Ponty and Husserl's Sixth Cartesian Meditation . ..................... .43 LESTER EMBREE

The Problem o[ Representational Adequacy, or How to Evidence an Ecosystem ........................... 59 PART 11. SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS

THOMAS LUCKMANN

On the Intersubjective Constitution o[ Morals .................... 73

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CONTENTS

MICHAEL BARBER

The Vulnerability o[ Reason: The Philosophical Foundations o[ Emmanuel Levinas and K O. Apel . " ........... 93 LEWIS R. GORDON

Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism ..................... 107 JOSHUA MILLER

Truth in the Experience o[ Political Actors: William James on Democratic Action . ....................... 131 RICHARD M. ZANER

Interpret