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Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Psychology and the Arts

Volume 11, Issues 1 & 2 

Kafka's Angel: The Distance of God in a Post-Traditional World Matthew T. Powell

The Flesh Made Word: Luce Irigaray's Rendering of the Sensible Transcendental Carolyn M. Tilghman

The Subversion of Plato's Quasi-Phenomenology and Mytho-Poetics in the Symposium Bert Olivier

The Search for the Absolute: Analytic Philosophy as an Insufficient Response to Idealism Owen Anderson

Geist in Mumbai: Hegel with Rushdie J.M. Fritzman

Between Chaos and Cosmos: Ernesto Grassi, William Faulkner, and the Compulsion to Speak Stephen D. Barnes

What's the 'Matter'  with Materialism? Walter Benjamin and the New Janitocracy  Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

A Duel with Fernando de Rojas: Picasso's Celestina Prints Susan Baker

Growing Up Through the Ages: Autonomy and Socialization in Tom Jones, Great Expectations, and I Am Charlotte Simmons Robert Scott Stewart & Michael Manson

The Return of the Relative: Hamilton, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and French Phenomenology, Philip Tonner

Bataille on Lascaux and the Origins of Art, Richard White

Being Situated in Recent Art: From the "Extended Situation" to "Relational Aesthetics", Ivy Cooper

Rough Cut: Phenomenological Reflections on Pina Bausch's Choreography, Tanja Staehler

The Enigma of the Will: Sade's Psychology of Evil,Geoffrey Roche

Summer/Fall Issue 2007 | 10.1 

Technologies--Musics--Embodiments Don Ihde

The Noise of the World Michael Filimowicz

Agency, Identity and Technology:The Concealment of the Contingent in American Culture John Pauley

A Heideggerian Reflection on the Prospects of Technology, Charles J. Sabatino

Bodies in Transit: The Plastic Subject of Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow

Sylvia Plath and White Ignorance: Race and Gender in "The Arrival of the Bee Box" Ellen Miller

Standing Unearthed: Construing a Persona Behind Plath's "I Am Vertical" Teresa Calderon Quindos

Friendship Across Differences: Heidegger and Richard Wright's Native Son Sharin N. Elkholy

Recovering Play: On the Relationship Between Leisure and Authenticity in Heidegger's Thought Kevin Aho

"Is There a Difference?": Iconic Images of Suffering in Buddhism and Christianity Alan Pope

On the Central Motivation of Dostoevsky's Novels Predrag Cicovacki

Against Violent Objects: Linguistic Theory and Practice in Novalis Kate Terezakis

The Artist's Study of Nature and its Relationship to Goethean Science Daan Hoekstra

Winter/Spring Issue 2007 | 9.2  - The Situated Body

Introduction: The Arts and Sciences of the Situated Body Shaun Gallagher

Affective Proprioception Jonathan Cole & Barbara Montero

Controlling Gaze, Chess Play and Seduction in Dance: Phenomenological Analysis of the Natural Attitude of the Body in Modern Ballroom Dance  Gediminis Karoblis

To Peform the Layered Body--A Short Exploration of the Body in Performance  Helena De Preester

Situated Cognition, Dynamic Systems, and Art: On Artistic Creativity and Aesthetic Experience, Ingar Brinck

Situating Situatedness through Æffect and the Architectural Body of Arakawa and Gins  Jondi Keane

The Uncanny Body: From Medical to Aesthetic Abnormality, Alexander Kozin

Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness: On Being Bodily in the World, Dorothée Legrand

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Itinerary From Body Schema to Situated Knowledge: On How We Are and How We Are Not to "Sing the World" Stephen H. Watson

On Naturally Embodied Cyborgs: Identities, Metaphors, and Models Evan Selinger and Timothy Engström

Negotiating Embodiment: A Reply to Selinger and Engström Andy Clark

Disembodied Consciousness and the Transcendence of the Limitations of the Biological Body Rob Harle

A Situated or a Metaphysical Body? Problematics of Body as Mediation or a Site of Inscription Andrew R. Rawnsley

Summer/Fall 2006 | 9.1 

Sublime, Necessarily Sublime, Christine V Marguerite Duras 

Our Uncertain Compassion Alphonso Lingis

Bartleby or a Loose Existence: Melville with Jonathan Edwards Branka Arsic

Stumbling Unto Grace: Invention and the Poetics of Imagination Camelia Elias

The Light and the Fogg: Edward Hopper and Paul Auster James Peacock

Moral and Epistemic Ambiguity in Oedipus Rex Havi Hannah Carel

Martin Buber and Immanuel Kant on Mutual Respect and the Liberal State Steven M. DeLue

Brains in the Flesh: Prospects for a Neurophenomenology Bernard Andrieu

Black Sun: Bataille on Sade Geoffrey Roche

The New Surrealism: Loft Stories, Reality Television, and Amateur Dream-Censors Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

The Artist Unbroken Margery E. Capone

Spatial Melancholia: The Construction of Sensitive Machines Uwe Schmidt-Hess

Winter 2005 | 8.2  - Philosophical Practice

"Marie Goes to Japan": Thinking, Praxis, and the Possibility of the New Margret Grebowicz

Contact Alphonso Lingis

Virginia Woolf: O Thy Splendid Identity! Seth Huebner

Philosophy and the Pursuit of One's Desire: Mathilde's Project Bert Olivier

The Dying Louisiana Wetlands John M. Desmond

Philosophical Counseling Practice Robert D. Walsh

Reinterpreting Psychiatric Diagnoses Peter B. Raabe

Maddening Melancholy: The Perils of Psychological Reductionism in Walker Percy,. Richard Ford, and Jonathan Franzen Robert Scott Stewart

Eros of Writing--Gesture of Absence Jana Milloy

Practical Intersubjectivity Stuart Grant

Discursive Therapy? Tom Strong & Andy Lock

Existential Psychoanalysis and Freudian Psychoanalysis  Louis N. Sandowsky

Reflections on Half a Life in Homage to Sophia Mike Kantey

Wittgenstein's Tigers: Lessons on Faith and Humor Jonathan Diamond

Summer 2005 | 8.1 -  Goethe's Delicate Empiricism

Memory, History, Forgiveness: A Dialogue Between Paul Ricoeur and Sorin Antohi  Paul Ricoeur and Sorin Antohi

Doing Goethean Science Craig Holdrege

"Zartre Empirie": Goethean Science as a Way of Knowing Daniel C. Wahl

Goethe's Way of Science as a Phenomenology of Nature David Seamon

New Organs of Perception: Goethean Science as a Cultural Therapeutics Brent Dean Robbins

Goethe and the Refiguring of Intellectual Inquiry: From 'Aboutness'-Thinking to 'Withness'- Thinking in Everyday Life John Shotter

Goethe, Husserl, and the Crisis of the European Sciences Eva-Maria Simms

Place, Goethe and Phenomenology John Cameron

Goethe and the Poetics of Science Dennis L. Sepper

The Proteus Within: Thoreau's Practice of  Goethe's Phenomenology Christina Root

Anschauung and the Archetype: The Role of Goethe's Delicate Empiricism in Comparative Biology Malte C. Ebach

Goethe and the Molecular Aesthetic  Maura C. Flannery

Goethe: A Science Which Does Not Eat the Other Bill Bywater

Emerging Out of Goethe: Conversation as a Form of Social Inquiry Allan Kaplan

Winter 2004 | 7.2 - Open Issue

Fetishism and Bad Faith: A Freudian Rebuttal to Sartre Christopher M. Gemerchak

Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense Ted Toadvine

Elemental Sonority: Heidegger, Hölderlin and Thunder Stephen B. Hatton

Evil and the Ritual of Shame: A Crime Against Humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina Keith Doubt

The Loss of Language, the Language of Loss: Thinking with DeLillo on Terror and Mourning J. Heath Atchley

Launching the Hydrapolemic: The Mythological Encounter with Polemic as Concept Kane X. Faucher

Violence and Heterogeneity: A Response to Habermas' "Between Eroticism and General Economics: Bataille" Apple Zefelius Igrek

Descartes in the Matrix: Addressing the Question "What is Real?" from Non-Positivist Ground Gilbert Garza

"God is dreaming you": Narrative as Imitatio Dei in Miguel De Unamuno Costica Bradatan

Painting in the Expanded Field Gustavo Fares

Summer 2004 | 7.1  Special Issue: Addiction II 

The Golden Age of Drinking and the Fall into Addiction Marty Roth

Nepenthes and Cannabis in Ancient Greece Luigi Arata

High Off the Page: Representing the Drug Experience of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Erik Mortenson

Machine Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari and an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use Peta Malins

I, Insect, or Bataille and the Crush Freaks Jeremy Biles

Metaddiction: Addiction at Work in Martin Amis' Money Michael Cohen

A Sociohistorical View of Addiction and Alcoholism Jen Royce Severns

An Existential-Phenomenology of Crack Cocaine Abuse Joaquin Trujillo

Sex Addiction on the Internet Mark Griffiths

Winter 2003 | 6.2: Addition

"Self-Will Run Riot": The Earth as an Alcoholic Roget Lockard

Reflections on "Self-Will Run Riot" by Roget Lockard Lynn Hoffman

The Cultural Framing of Addiction Robin Room

Drugs-as-a-Disease: Heroin, Metaphors, and Identity in Nixon's Drug War Daniel Weimer

Styron Leaves Las Vegas: Philosophy, Alcohol, and the Addictions of Experience Kerry Kidd

The Tao of Drunkenness and Sobriety Helen Douglas

Spring 2003 | 6.1

Cartesian Change, Chiasmic Change -- The Power of Living Expression John Shotter

The Unbearable Trauma and Witnessing in Blanchot and Levinas Lars Iyer

Halo of Identity: The Significance of First Names and Naming M.D. Tschaepe

Matter-Image or Image-Consciousness: Bergson contra Sartre Temenuga Trifonova

The Islamic Terrorist Approached as There-Being: An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis Joaquin Trujillo

Derrida's (Ir)religion: A Theology (of Differance) Ian Edwards

Fall 2002 | 5.2  Magical Realism

In Reality Michael Wood

The Visualizing Capacity of Magical Realism: Objects and Expression in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges Lois Parkinson Zamora

Contentious Contributions: Magical Realism Goes British Anne Hegerfeldt

The Question of the Other: Cultural Critiques of Magical RealismWendy Faris

Magical Realism in the Tales of Nikolai Gogol James D. Hardy & Leonard Stanton

Volume 5.1: Knowing Subjects: Human Lives, Human Worlds

Lewis R. Gordon, Making Science Reasonable: Peter Caws on Science both Human and “Natural”

David Theo Goldberg, Post-Racial States

Virginia Held, Feminist Moral Inquiry: The Role of Experience

Jonathan D. Moreno, Fiduciary Knowledge and Moral Consensus in Bioethics

John R. Wright, A Plea for Acknowledgment: Reflections on Finding Human Reasons for Moral Action

Linda Belau, The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis (Trauma, Repetition, and the Signifier)

Brent Dean Robbins, Lacan: The Limits of Love and Knowledge

Julie Reiser, The Autobiography of Consciousness and the New Cognitive Existentialism

Kristina Arp, Founding an Existential Ethics: Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism Revisited

Stuart Umpleby, Should Knowledge of Management Be Organized as Theories or as Methods?

John Rudisill, Towards a Reclamation of Substantive Liberalism

4.2 / FALL 2001

Husserl and Freud on the Psychic Body in Action: A Comparative Analysis with a Reference to the Neurosciences  Antoine Vergote Translated by Stewart Sadowsky

Heidegger, Hölderlin, and National Socialism Frank Edler

Kierkegaard's Repetition as a Comedy in Two Acts Stewart Dalton

The Psychology of Self-Deception as Illustrated in Literary Characters Christopher Frost, Michael Arfken & Dylan W. Brock

The Birth of Philosophy in Poetry: Blanchot, Char, Heraclitus Lars Iyer

Histories and Theories of Nationalism: A Semiotic Reproach M. Michael Schiff

4.1 Special Issue: The Legacy of R. D. Laing, Spring 2001

R. D. Laing and the Politics of Diagnosis Daniel Burston

Remembering Ronnie Leon Redler, Steven Gans, and Bob Mullan

Trick or Treat: The Divided Self of R. D. Laing Joseph Berke

Entheogens and Psychotherapy Andrew Feldmar

Laing in Austria Theodor Itten

On the Legacy of Ronald Laing F. A. Jenner

Cognition and Community: The Scottish Philosophical Context of the Divided Self Gavin Miller

R. D. Laing as Negative Thinker Scott Bortle

Comprehending Madness: The Contextualization of Psychopathology in the Worl of R. D. Laing Brent Potter

Laing's Presence Miles Groth

Classification and the Treatment of the Patient Victor Barbetti

Epilogue Daniel Burston

GWU Issue 2001: Selected Papers from the 6th Annual Human Sciences Conference at The George Washington University. Rethinking the Human Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies, Global Education, and the Languages of Criticism

The Unconscious is Structured Like a City: Freud, Lacan, and the Project of the Human Sciences  Peter Caws

Noam Chomsky Between the Human and Natural Sciences Frits Staal

 Scientia Media, Incommensurability, and Interdisciplinary Space Brent Dean Robbins

 Is Stephen Hawking Modern? A Study of A Brief History of Time in Relation to the Theories of Bruno Latour Maureen Madison

 Rhetoric, Science, and the Rhetoric of Science: An Exercise Margaret Hamilton

 Debt and Duty: Kant, Derrida, and African Philosophy  Bruce B. Janz

 Visualizing Culture: Inscription as an Ethnographic Artifact  Matthew Wolfgram

 Containing Cultural Studies: The Departmentalization of an Anti-Disciplinary Project Steve Macek

 A Minor Incision: Trans-Disciplinarity and the Discourses of Marginality John C. Goshert

 The Auction House of Postmodernity: Salman Rushdie and the Ends of Literature in a Global World Order Robert P. Marzec

 Systematic Change: William Gibson, Monsters, Cyborgs, and Time  Justin Roby

 Rethinking Academic Discourse: A Poetic Approach to Academic Endeavor Andrea Custodi

3.2 / Fall 2000

The Dreadful Mystic Banquet Alphonso Lingis

Psychology is Useless; Or, It Should Be Robert Romanyshyn

Foucault's Dream: The Irony of Geneology and Subjectivity Mark D. Tschaepe

Doorways A. W. Metcalfe

Alfred Baeumler on Hölderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship
(Part IIIA) Frank Edler

Spring 2000 3.1 Special Issue: Regarding a Critical Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Philosophy Ernesto Grassi

The Psychological in the Neighborhood of Thought and Poetry:  The Uncanny Logos of the Psyche Michael Sipiora

On the History of Rhetoric and Psychology Brent Dean Robbins

"To Be Alive When Something Happens": Retrieving Dilthey's Erlebnis John Arthos

Speaking Differently: Deconstruction/Meditative Thinking as the Heart of "the Faculty of Observing" Aloysius Joseph

A Hermeneutic and Rhetoric of Dreams Cyd Ropp

2.2 / Fall 1999

Alfred Baeumler on Hölderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship
Part II of III Frank Edler

A Preface to Silence: On the Duty of Vigilant Critique Norman K. Swazo

Deconstructing Psychological Metanarratives Suzann Kole-Berlingieri

Ideas and Information Technology: From a Strategic Application of "Soft" Power in Foreign Policy to a "Third Way" in Domestic Policy Wayne Hunt

Political Ideology as Theatre in Herodotus Doug Mann

The Short (Six Panel), Happy (?) Life of Ninon de Lenclos Jack Shadoian

Volume 2, Number 1: Summer 1999

Doorways, Divestiture, and the Eye of Wrath: Tracking an Archetype Evans Lansing Smith

Victory is Ours: Some Thoughts on Apartheid and Christianity Alan Schwerin [Text Only]

Religio-Political Insights of 19th Century Women Hymnists and Lyric Poets Linda A. Moody

Being as Refusal: Melville's Bartleby as Heideggerian Anti-Hero Louise Sundararajan

Ways of Knowing Marilyn Walker [Text Only]

Volume 1, Number 3 : Spring 1999

Alfred Baeumler on Hölderlin and the Greeks: Reflections on the Heidegger-Baeumler Relationship
(Part I of II) Frank H. W. Edler

Remote Locutions: Mediation, Alienation, and Superfluity in Cyberspace Ideology Mary Anne Franks

The Elderly in Modern Society: A Cultural Psychological Reading Alan Pope

An Examination of Moral Action and Aesthetic Judgement in Kant's Critical Philosophy  Brian Donohue

In Defense of Humanism: Pragmatism, Intention and Faith (The Problem of Signification)  Caley Michael Orr

Volume 1, Number 2

Martini or Bikini? The Question of Differance Between Philosophy and Literature Rex Olson

Many Voices, Many Visions: Toward a Feminist Methodology for Narrative Theology and Ethics Elizabeth A. Say

Out of the Shadows Jennifer Severns

Apollo and Dionysus: From Warfare to Assimilation in The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil Bart Bryant

Freud, the Feminist? Suzanne Brom

Volume 1, Number 1

What is Janus Head? Editorial

A Reading of Kuhn in Light of Heidegger as a Response to Hoeller's Critique of Giorgi Brent Dean Robbins

Transforming the Chain into Story: The Making of Communal Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved Claire Cowan-Barbetti

The Future of the Dream Body in Virtual Reality Scott Kaper

On Sartre and Self-Consciousness Hulya Guney

He made his confessions and told all his misdeeds: The Rise of the Internal Consciousness between 1100 and 1500  Thomas J. Tobin

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