Acting Person

From the Reviews: "The Acting Person represents a major effort to rethink the human reality in the face of the many frozen assumptions which dominate contemporary thought." (Professor Benjamin Schwartz, Harvard University) "This powerful phenomenological study will have lasting impact on those concerned with the contemporary conception of Man." (Professor Joseph Kockelmans, Pennsylvania State University) "A masterly critical edition ... its publication is an historical event" (Professor Kamil Dziewanowski, Boson State University)

• 1. The Experience of Man.- 2. Cognition of the Person Rests on the Experience of Man.- 3. The Stages of Comprehending and the Lines of Interpretation.- 4. The Conception of Person and Action to Be Presented in This Study.- One: Consciousness and Efficacy.- One / The Acting Person in the Aspect of Consciousness.- Two / An Analysis of Efficacy in the Light of Human Dynamism.- Two: The Transcendence of the Person in the Action.- Three / The Personal Structure of Self-Determination.- Four / Self-Determination and Fulfillment.- Three: The Integration of the Person in the Action.- Five / Integration and the Soma.- Six / Personal Integration and the Psyche.- Four: Participation.- Seven / Intersubjectivity By Participation.- Postscript.- Notes.- Appendix: the unrevised translation of Chapter seven.- Index of names.- Analytical table of contents.