Person and Act and Related Essays
The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy.

What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies.

The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects 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.
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Person and Act and Related Essays
The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy.

What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies.

The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects 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.
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Person and Act and Related Essays

Person and Act and Related Essays

by Karol Wojtyla
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The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy.

What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies.

The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813233666
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Publication date: 02/12/2021
Series: The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II
Pages: 592
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword to the English Critical Edition Carl A. Anderson vii

Introduction to the English Critical Edition Rev. Antonio López, FSCB xi

Preface to Volume 1 of the English Critical Edition Grzegorz Ignatik xxv

Acknowledgments xxxix

I Pre-1969 Synopsis and Fragments

1 Person and Act: A Synopsis 3

2 Person and Act: The Introductory and Fundamental Reflections 36

3 Person and Act in the Aspect of Consciousness: A Fragment of the Study Person and Act 59

4 Person and Act: The Reflexive Functioning of Consciousness and Its Emotionalization 74

5 Person and Act: Subjectivity and Subjectivism 87

6 Person and Act in Light of Man's Dynamism 90

II Person and Act

Introduction 95

Part 1 Consciousness and Efficacy

1 Person and Act in the Aspect of Consciousness 121

2 The Analysis of Efficacy in Relation to the Dynamism of Man 161

Part 2 The Transcendence of the Person in the Act

3 The Personal Structure of Self-Determination 207

4 Self-Determination and Fulfillment 251

Part 3 The Integration of the Person in the Act

5 Integration and Somaticity 295

6 Integration and the Psyche 330

Part 4 Participation

7 (Supplementum): An Outline of the Theory of Participation 377

Afterword 415

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 419

2 Symposium on Person and Act (Lublin-Catholic University of Lublin, 1971) 423

3 The Afterword to the Discussion on Person and Act 433

4 The Personal Structure of Self-Determination (A Lecture for the Conference on St. Thomas) 457

5 The Person: Subject and Community 467

6 Participation or Alienation 514

7 A Letter to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka 532

8 Subjectivity and "the Irreducible" in Man 536

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) 546

10 The Transcendence of the Person in the Act and the Auto-teleology of Man 554

11 Theoria and Praxis in the Philosophy of the Human Person 567

12 Theoria and Praxis: A Universally Human and Christian Topic 575

13 The Author's Preface to the First English Edition of Person and Act 586

Texts Marked by the Critical Apparatus 586

Footnotes Marked by the Critical Apparatus 623

Editorial Notes 627

Bibliography 641

Index 653

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