与胡塞尔的谈话(1931-1938年)

这是胡塞尔与耶格施密特修女于1931-1938年之间的谈话记录.当时,在国家社会主义的影响下,胡塞尔越来越过着离群索居的生活,耶格施密特修女是为数极少的坚持与其来往的朋友.在耶格施密特修女每次谈话之后记撰下来的这些记录中,有胡塞尔对其现象学和哲学的反省,也有他对德国以及欧洲时局的忧虑,还有他对他的那些学生和朋友的评论,特别还包含有胡塞尔在其公开发表的著作中极少谈及的对于基督教的思考.可以说,这些珍贵的谈话记录给人们勾勒了胡塞尔晚年的思考和生活状况,也在很大程度上使胡塞尔的形象更为丰满.     

Child study at Clark University: 1894-1904

A first cooperative research program in developmental psychology was established in the Clark questionnaire studies. The program was not meant to be free-standing but to elaborate an evolutionary conception of child development synthesized from findings of several scientific fields. The short-lived program had some serious faults, but an examination of its research papers suggests that it produced some worthwhile work. The child-study researchers gathered information about children's social and emotional reactions in everyday settings; one or two of their studies were replicated; they found pattern and order; they elaborated a meaningful social-biological view of child development.     

The historical context of G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence (1904)

G. Stanley Hall's magnum opus, Adolescence, published in 1904 in two hefty volumes I herein submit to historical analysis. I am concerned with how it did "fit" into the notions and practices of the larger culture as well as into the discourses of science and of child nurture of that time. There is plenty of evidence of Hall's ethnic, racial, and gender attitudes as expressed in the book being typical of the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle class stratum to which he belonged. His discussions of the extant discourses of science and of child nurture show a man quite conversant with these discourses, and not merely in American and British, but also in French and German publications as well. Probably any book, idea, or historical circumstance or phenomenon is chiefly a historical artifact, and we should not bend it much to "prove" that it is in any important sense a part of a different age. It is one thing to say that a certain idea has a contemporary resonance; to claim there is a straight line from it to today is problematic and meaningless.