Course Description:
An exploration of the phenomenology of intersubjectivity as a horizon of human existence.
 

Course Objectives:
to understand the lived experience of relations with other people, from the familiar to the larger social order
 

Required Readings:
· Gurwitsch, A. (1979). Human encounters in the social world (Translated by P. Kersten). Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press.
· Kwant, R.G. (1965). Phenomenology of social existence. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press.
· Laing, R.D. (1961). Self and others. Baltimore: Penguin.
· Laing. R.D. & Esterson, A. Sanity, madness and the family. Baltimore: Penguin.
· Laing. R.D.. Phillipson, & Lee. A.R. (1966). Interpersonal perception. NY: Harper & Row.
· Theunissen. M. (1984). The other: Studies in the social ontology of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Buber. Cambridge. MA: MIT Press.
 

Course Requirements:
· class attendance and participation
· research project
· final exam