文档介绍:Human Experience
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
Human Experience
Philosophy, Neurosis,
and the Elements of Everyday Life
JOHN RUSSON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Russon, John Edward, 1960-
Human experience : philosophy, neurosis, and the elements of everyday life / John Russon.
p. cm. –(SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5753-2 (alk. paper) – ISBN 0-7914-5754-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Phenomenological psychology. 2. Neuroses. I. Title. II. Series.
2003
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2002044799
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This work is dedicated to
Maria Talero,
a true friend
and a true philosopher.
We therefore must not recoil with childish aversion from the examination of
the humbler animals. Every realm of nature is marvellous: and as Heraclitus,
when the strangers who came to visit him found him warming himself at
the furnace in the kitchen and hesitated to go in, is reported to have bid-
den them not to be afraid to enter, as even in that kitchen divinities were
present, so we should venture on the study of every kind of animal with-
out distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something