Human Experience

John Russon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. He is the author of The Self and Its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He is also the coeditor (with John Sallis) of Retracing the Platonic Text and (with Michael Baur) Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H. S. Harris.

"…Human Experience is a genuine and original work of philosophy … It is exemplary in its clarity and rigor of expression." — Continental Philosophy Review"The book is persuasively insightful and an excellent translation of phenomenological-hermeneutical ideas, resonating with the works of Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and others, into a practical application concerning the nature of therapy." — Shaun Gallagher, editor of Hegel, History, and Interpretation"This is a daring book. Russon has clearly challenged many prejudices. He describes experiences that question the prejudice about presence, about our bodies being mass or extension, about memory being subjective, and about the normal self being understood as a 'self-contained choosing power.'" — Leonard Lawlor, coeditor of Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh

• Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. The Form of Human Experience 1. Interpretation 2. Embodiment 3. Memory PART II. The Substance of Human Experience 4. Others 5. Neurosis PART III. The Process of Human Experience 6. Philosophy Bibliography Index