This article proposes that the eighteenth-century novel Siebenkäs contains formulation of an aesthetic theory embraces same-sex desire. The novel's author, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, still relatively unknown among literary scholars today, uses myth Narcissus as blueprint for novel. In doing so, he appears to comply with conventions espoused by his German Romantic peers, many whom considered s...

This article describes a holistic and transpersonal approach to higher education and presents the graduate psychology programs and practices of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) as an illustrative example of this approach, given its 30þ year history. The article describes ITP’s transpersonal and whole-person focus, its experiential learning emphases, its foundational principles an...

Entities Chris Swoyer Penultimate draft of a paper for Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, eds., Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman, Blackwell, 2008; pp 1-31. One of the most puzzling topics for newcomers to metaphysics is the debate over the existence and nature of abstract entities, things like numbers (seven), sets (the set of even numbers), properties (triangularity), an...