The primacy of interrelating: Practicing ecological psychology with Buber, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-61

  Adams, Will W ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological psychology; Ethics; I thou; Interrelationships; Nature; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547539081     PISSN: 00472662     EISSN: 15691624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916207X190238     Document Type: Article

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