Person and Act and Related Essays (English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II)

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the first volume of the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Under the auspices of an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul's writings and correspondence in the years before and during his papacy. This collection is essential for several reasons. For one thing, gaining access to the saint's writings has posed a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, St. John Paul's works have been scattered and limited. Many documents need a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts of dealing with several languages, various translations, and textual idiosyncrasies. The inaugural volume of this collection is __Person and Act and Related Essays__. In many ways __Person and Act__ constitutes Karol Wojtyła's most profound and well-known philosophical work. Originally published in 1969 as __Osoba i czyn__, this work of metaphysics and philosophy is widely influential even though it is highly challenging intellectually and has heretofore posed difficulties for translators. Contents Foreword to the English Critical Edition | Carl A. Anderson Introduction to the English Critical Edition | Rev. Antonio López, FSCB Preface to Volume 1 of the English Critical Edition | Grzegorz Ignatik Acknowledgments I. Pre-1969 Synopsis and Fragments 1. Person and Act: A Synopsis 2. Person and Act: The Introductory and Fundamental Reflections 3. Person and Act in the Aspect of Consciousness: A Fragment of the Study Person and Act 4. Person and Act: The Reflexive Functioning of Consciousness and Its Emotionalization 5. Person and Act: Subjectivity and Subjectivism 6. Person and Act in Light of Man’s Dynamism II. Person and Act Introduction Part 1. Consciousness and Efficacy 1. Person and Act in the Aspect of Consciousness 2. The Analysis of Efficacy in Relation to the Dynamism of Man Part 2. The Transcendence of the Person in the Act 3. The Personal Structure of Self-Determination 4. Self-Determination and Fulfillment Part 3. The Integration of the Person in the Act 5. Integration and Somaticity 6. Integration and the Psyche Part 4. Participation 7. (Supplementum): An Outline of the Theory of Participation Afterword III. Post-1969 Related Essays 1. Introductory Statement during the Discussion on Person and Act at the Catholic University of Lublin on December 16, 1970 2. Symposium on Person and Act (Lublin—Catholic University of Lublin, 1971) 3. The Afterword to the Discussion on Person and Act 4. The Personal Structure of Self-Determination (A Lecture for the Conference on St. Thomas) 5. The Person: Subject and Community 6. Participation or Alienation 7. A Letter to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 8. Subjectivity and “the Irreducible” in Man 9. The Degrees of Being in Phenomenology and in Classical Metaphysics: Introduction (to the Discussion from the Point of View of the Phenomenology of Action) 10. The Transcendence of the Person in the Act and the Auto-teleology of Man 11. Theoria and Praxis in the Philosophy of the Human Person 12. Theoria and Praxis: A Universally Human and Christian Topic 13. The Author’s Preface to the First English Edition of Person and Act Texts Marked by the Critical Apparatus Footnotes Marked by the Critical Apparatus Editorial Notes Bibliography Index "A new translation, with scholarly notes and textual annotations based on new research into archival collections, of Wojtyla's most well-known philosophical work and related fragments, addresses, and letters"-- Provided by publisher