Complete Works of James Park

    These publications are divided into the following sections.
This complete list of books is one single file,
which you can scroll thru from top to bottom.
Or you can jump immediately to any section
by clicking the section name below:

LOVE —(6 books)

SEXOLOGY —(2 book)

EXISTENTIALISM —(4 books)

EXISTENTIAL SPIRITUALITY —(5 books)

MEDICAL ETHICS —(2 books)

DEATH —(2 books)


Ordering information will be found at the end of this list.


6 BOOKS ON LOVE

New Ways of Loving

How Authenticity Transforms Relationships

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books: www.existentialbooks.com, 2007—6th edition)       264 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-526-0; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BF575.L8P37 2007)


   
    New Ways of Loving challenges most assumptions about love
and replaces them with new forms of loving relationships.  
Romantic love, sexual attraction, & conventional marriage
are replaced by new relationships beginning with our self-inventing selves.
We can love freely instead of imposing obligations.
We can love without needing, possessiveness, or jealousy.
We can love beyond our imprinted sexual fantasies
and our enculturated gender-personalities.
We can weigh the pros and cons of having children. 
And we might even love beyond our existential loneliness.

    More information about New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships



TALL BOOKS ON LOVE

    The following small books published in a tall format
(11 inches high, 4.25 inches wide)
are spin-offs from James Park's book on love.
These might also be published as magazine articles.
The numbers correspond to the chapters of New Ways of Loving.
Each comes in its own paperback cover.


1. The Romantic Love Test: How Do We Know If We Are in Love?

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1998)       12 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-511-3; paperback)

    This test of 180 questions is divided into 26 sections (A-Z),
one for each defining feature of romantic love.
These 26 features and one question from each section
will appear if you click the line above.

$1.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling.


2. Growing in Love:
21 Ways to Become Less Dependent & More Authentic

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1998)       24 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-521-0; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BD436.P37 1998)

    This Tall Book contrasts the differences between
the dependent orientation
and loving from Authenticity in 21 ways.
These 21 contrasts will be found at:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/GIL.html

$2.00 plus $1.00 Postage & Handling.


3. Loving in Freedom

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1989)       8 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-553-?)

    A shorter version of Ch 3 of New Ways of Loving.

8 pages—$.50 plus $1.00 postage and handling.


4. A New Way of Loving: Non-Comprehensive Relationships

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1988)       16 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-554-?)

    Themes from Chapter 4 of NWL, but only 2/3 as long)

$1.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling.


ONE BOOK-IN-PROGRESS ON LOVE

Designer Marriage
Write Your Own Relationship Contract

by James Park

    This book-in-progress is built around 28 questions
every couple should ask
concerning housing, promises, children, money, etc.

    The following items are available on the author's home page:

A 3-page outline, which includes the 28 questions:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/RC.html

Best books on relationship contracts:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/B-RC.html

Outline of a presentation by James Park:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/O-RC.html
 


TWO BOOKS IN SEXOLOGY

IMPRINTED SEXUAL FANTASIES

A NEW KEY FOR SEXOLOGY

by James Park

    This book grew out of an attempt to revise
the chapter on sex for
New Ways of Loving.
But it grew far too long for that book,
so it has become a book of its own.
ISF is 175 pages long.
Pre-publication copies are available.
The only published version is "Loving Beyond Sex:
Transcending Our Imprinted Sex-Scripts",
which is Chapter 7 of
New Ways of Loving.

<>    The internet has a comprehensive outline (4 pages):
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ISF.html
This table of contents links to a synopsis of each chapter.


Chapter titles of James Park's book-in-process,

IMPRINTED SEXUAL FANTASIES

A NEW KEY FOR SEXOLOGY

I. INTRODUCING THE SEX-SCRIPT HYPOTHESIS

II. THE EVOLUTIONARY BACKGROUND OF HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS

III. SEXUAL IMPRINTING AT CRITICAL PERIODS

IN PSYCHO-SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
IV. THREE LEVELS OF SEX-SCRIPTS

V. VARIETIES OF SEX-SCRIPTS

VI. IDENTIFYING OUR OWN SEX-SCRIPTS

VII. HOMOSEXUAL SEX-SCRIPTS

VIII. THE IMPACT OF SEX-SCRIPTS ON OUR RELATIONSHIPS

IX. TRANSCENDING OUR SEX-SCRIPTS

X. FUTURE RESEARCH INTO HUMAN SEX-SCRIPTS

XI. SEX-SCRIPTS IN THE 21st CENTURY


PRE-PUBLICATION FEEDBACK WANTED

    If you are very interested in this book-in-progress 
---Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology---
and if you will volunteer to give meaningful feedback,
you can receive one chapter of your choice from this book by e-mail.

    If you would like to have a printed version of the book,
write to the author for details.


FIRST READERS LIST

    Also, a First Readers List has been started for this book.
If you would like to be one of the first people in the world
to read this book once it is published,
you will be informed by e-mail as soon as it is printed.

    Send your name and e-mail address
(which will not be shared with anyone else) to:
James Park: e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

    Projected publication date: Summer of Fall 2008.


Variations of Sex & Gender

Six Phenomena Frequently Confused

    Most of us have standard patterns of sex and gender,
but human persons come in infinite variety.
This book-in-progress explores six areas of variation:

(1) biological sex: female, male, or in-between;

(2) male/female self-designation: men, women, & transsexuals;

(3) sex-roles: everyday behavior assigned on the basis of sex;

(4) gender-personalities: thousands of possible gender-patterns;

(5) sexual orientation: heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual;

(6) transvestism: six different reasons for cross-dressing.

Projected publication date: 2009.
 


THREE BOOKS IN EXISTENTIALISM

Becoming More Authentic

The Positive Side of Existentialism

by James Park


(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books: www.existentialbooks.com, 2007—5th edition)       96 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-105-7; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: B105.A8P37 2007)


    Becoming More Authentic is the first (and still the only) book
to give a systematic account of the concept of Authentic Existence
as defined in existential philosophy and psychology.

    PART I.  Authenticity defined by 23 features,
which are explained in the course of the first two chapters.
These chapters also contain an Authenticity Test,
which is designed to enable the careful reader
to assess his or her present degree of Authenticity.

    PART II.  explores several possible Authentic projects-of-being.

    PART III. presents Authenticity
as described by five different existential thinkers:
Camus, Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, & Maslow.

    Here is the link to the complete table of contents (two pages):
Table of Contents of Becoming More Authentic .
This table of contents leads to several pages from the book,
which you can read---free of charge---on the Internet.
About 10% of the book will be found here.


Existential Anxiety: Angst

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2006—5th edition)       62 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-98231-956-5; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BF575.A6P37 2006)

    Have you ever felt the nameless dread?
Terror and anguish without a cause?
This book gives a name and careful description
to the nameless threat, the free-floating anxiety
which we have all felt but perhaps not faced.

    First it distinguishes existential anxiety
from ordinary fear in five different ways.
Then, capitalizing on insights from
Heidegger, Kierkegaard, May, & Binswanger,
it proceeds to unpack many dimensions of this experience,
our ordinary ways of trying to manage it,
channeling it creatively into Authentic Existence,
and finally the possibility of life without angst.

    The complete table of contents of Existential Anxiety: Angst
will appear if you click the line of code below:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/XP89.html

62 pages; $8.00, plus $3.00 postage & handling.
Large format paperback (11 inches X 8.5 inches)
enclosed in clear plastic over-cover.

    This book is also published as one of the chapters of
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death,
which is James Park's longest book.
So, if you plan to buy Our Existential Predicament (details below),
there is no need to buy Existential Anxiety: Angst.
But this small book could also be an introduction
for readers who do not feel ready for the 300-page book.

    Since some readers have been confused by this duplication,
it bears repeating that this small book is one chapter from
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.
As you will see in the table of contents for Our Existential Predicament,
Existential Anxiety: Angst is chapter 6 of Our Existential Predicament.

    For more information about Existential Anxiety: Angst, go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/AX.html
Here you will find some excerpts from this book.


An Existential Understanding of Death

A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2001—4th edition)
(ISBN: 0-89231-949-6; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BD444.P37 2001)

    After discussing 8 common ways in which we deny, evade,
cover-up, and repress the deeper dimensions of death,
this book—drawing on insights provided by Martin Heidegger—
creates the new concept "ontological anxiety",
which differs both from the physical-biological-medical fact of death
and from our emotional-subjective-personal fear of ceasing-to-be.
This existential-phenomenological approach
requires a paradigm shift in our thinking about death,
but this new model may make better sense
of what we are already deeply feeling.

    The first three sections of this book explore and distinguish
the following three dimensions of death:
Each dimension of death may be described in 7 corresponding features:

THE FACT OF DEATH

1. intellectual construct.
2. empirical fact.
3. observable occurrence.
4. finitude.
5. objective-external.
6. abstract-general.
7. unowned.

THE FEAR OF CEASING-TO-BE

1. emotional response.
2. arises from empirical fact.
3. personal apprehension.
4. awareness of my finitude.
5. subjective-deep.
6. specific-personal.
7. owned.

ONTOLOGICAL ANXIETY

1. inner state-of-being
2. arises from my internal 'nothing'.
3. existential disclosure.
4. constant internal threat.
5. arises from the core of my self.
6. more mine than my death.
7. lays claim to my self.

    The full table of contents of An Existential Understanding of Death
will appear on your computer screen if the click the following line of code:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/XP181.html

72 pages; $8.00 plus $3.00 postage & handling.
Large format paperback (11 inches X 8.5 inches)
enclosed in a clear plastic over-cover.

    This book is also published as the longest chapter of
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death,
which is James Park's longest book.
So, if you plan to buy Our Existential Predicament (details below),
there is no need to buy An Existential Understanding of Death.

    The author regards this as his best book,
but it is also the most difficult to understand.
Persons unfamiliar with existential and phenomenological thinking
are urged to start with one of the easier chapters of
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.

    Since some readers have been confused by the fact that this small book
is identical with the chapter on death in Our Existential Predicament,
it bears repeating, that there is no need to buy it in both forms.
As you will see in the next table of contents,
An Existential Understanding of Death
is Chapter 9 of Our Existential Predicament.

    For more information about An Existential Understanding of Death, go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/UD.html
This link will also lead you to some excerpts from this book.


Our Existential Predicament

Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

by James Park


(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books: www.existentialbooks.com, 2006—5th edition)       312 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-950-3; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: B819.P37 2006)


    Our Existential Predicament explores an inward dilemma
that all sensitive persons recognize
but which has not been well articulated either by philosophy or psychology.
Each of the basic 11 chapters
views our Existential Malaise from a different perspective.
Once we have become more fully aware of our Existential Dilemma,
we can proceed in many constructive ways to attempt to deal with it.


    When a line appears in blue below, you will receive
additional information about that item or chapter by clicking it.
Usually you will see the outline and first section of that chapter.


Preliminary materials about Our Existential Predicament

About the Author—And the Book

Copyright page—SUBJECT classifications for this book

Chart: The Human Condition vs. Our Existential Predicament

From Our Existential Predicament to Existential Freedom

A Synopsis of each chapter
 


The Contents of

Our Existential Predicament
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

by James Park

{The first section of any chapter will appear if you click the blue title.}

Introduction: Transcending Our Existential Predicament 1

Becoming and Remaining Existentially Free 24

Chapter 1 Existential Loneliness:
Deeper than the Reach of Love 25

Chapter 2 Existential Depression:
Deeper than Psychological Depression 39

Finding Joy, Wholeness, and Fulfillment 52

Chapter 3 Existential Absurdity:
Is Life Worth Living? 53

Finding Harmony, Security, and Hope 68

Chapter 4 Existential Meaninglessness:
The Collapse of 'Meanings' and Illusions 69

Living in Daily Response to Existential Freedom 76

Chapter 5 The Existential Void:
Discovering Our Bottomless Emptiness 77

Joy 88

Chapter 6 Existential Anxiety: Angst 89

Peace 150

Chapter 7 Existential Splitting:
Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death 151

Fulfillment 164

Chapter 8 Existential Guilt:
Deeper than Moral Conscience 165

Three Dimensions of Death 180

Chapter 9 An Existential Understanding of Death:
A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety 181

Chapter 10 Existential Despair:
Floating Down the River of Despair 253

Chapter 11 Existential Insecurity:
When all Security-Operations Fail 267

Afterword: Obstacles to Existential Freedom 275

Bibliography 309


    If you would like to read this whole book, click here:
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.
 


FIVE BOOKS IN EXISTENTIAL SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality for Humanists

Six Capacities of Our Human Spirits

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1995)       24 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-022-7; large format (8.5 X 11) paperback)
(ISBN: 0-89231-021-9; (small format (5.5 X 8.5) paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: B778.P37 1995)

    This book has the virtue of being very short---just 24 pages.
And yet it introduces all the basic concepts of existential spirituality.
The 6 capacities of our human spirits are:

(1) self-transcendence, self-criticism, & altruism;
(2) freedom;
(3) creativity;
(4) love;
(5) awareness of our Existential Predicament; &
(6) glimpses of joy and fulfillment.

    The table of contents of Spirituality for Humanists
will appear if you click that blue title.
And that table of contents will lead you to the complete text of this book,
which is available free of charge from this home page.

    However, if you would like to have a printed copy of this small book,
here's what you need for ordering Spirituality for Humanists by the mail:

Small format paperback (8.5" X 5.5"); 24 pages:
$1.00 + $1.00 P & H;     ISBN: 0-89231-021-9

Large format paperback (8.5" X 11"); 24 pages:
$2.00 + $2.00 P & H;     ISBN: 0-89231-022-7

Library of Congress call number: B778.P37 1995


In Quest of Fulfillment

Money, Achievement, Marriage, Children, Pleasure, & Religion

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1999)       40 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-920-8; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BJ1481.P37 1999)

   This book explores the six most frequently trodden paths
toward attempted self-fulfillment:
One chapter is devoted to each of the following:

(1) Money & Possessions
(2) Achievement
(3) Marriage
(4) Children
(5) Pleasure & Enjoyment
(6) Religion

    Even if we have not explicitly formulated a philosophy of life,
we have already implicitly organized our lives in such directions.
Any of these paths to happiness could extend indefinitely.
And usually, we follow several paths to fulfillment simultaneously,
sometimes giving greater emphasis to one or another.

    However, the possibly-surprising thesis of this book is that
none of these six paths ultimately leads to fulfillment.
We can certainly find relative happiness on each of these paths,
but ultimately fulfillment comes only in a way we do not expect.

    Each chapter (after exploring money, achievement, etc.)
shows how Existential Freedom—release from our Existential Malaise—
is much more fulfilling than anything we could achieve.

  In Quest of Fulfillment is 40 pages long:
$4.00 + $2.00 postage and handling.

    For more information, including SUBJECT HEADINGS and an excerpt,
click this title: In Quest of Fulfillment .


Our Existential Predicament

Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2006—5th edition)       312 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-950-X; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: B819.P37 2006)

    This is the central text of existential spirituality.
Each of its 11 chapters explores our Existential Malaise
thru a different psychological perspective. For example,
our existential loneliness pretends to be interpersonal loneliness.
And our existential guilt tries to become pangs of moral conscience.
Other chapters are devoted to absurdity, meaninglessness, despair,
the existential Void, existential splitting, & insecurity.

    The Introduction explains how we become
more deeply persons of spirit.
And the Afterword examines several obstacles
to becoming Existentially Free,
which means living beyond our Existential Dilemma.

    This book is over 300 pages long,
but the chapters are available separately,
allowing each reader to select his or her own paths
thru our Existential Dilemma.

    The contents of Our Existential Predicament
will appear on your screen, if you click this blue title.
And from there, you can read several pages of the book.


Opening to Grace

Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1999)       64 pages
(ISBN:  0-89231-921-6; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BT761.2.P37 1999)

    For readers who do not have time to read
Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death,
this much shorter book covers most of the same territory
in 20% of the space for 1/5 of the price.
This is designed as a study-book for intelligent readers in spiritual quest.
It is not sectarian in tone. Open-minded persons
of all spiritual traditions will appreciate
Opening to Grace.

    One chapter is devoted to each of the following:
spiritual loneliness, guilt, depression, meaninglessness,
the spiritual Void, insecurity, despair, & anxiety.
Most chapters are limited to 4 pages, about 20 minutes of reading.
Each chapter ends with a set of questions for discussion.
And each of the eight themes could lead to about two hours of discussion.

  Opening to Grace is 64 pages, small format (8.5" X 5.5") paperback:
$6.00 + $2.00 postage and handling;


The Contents of

Opening to Grace

Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise

Introduction: Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise

Chapter 1 Interpersonal Loneliness & Spiritual Loneliness
(The complete text of Chapter 1 is available on-line. Click the title above.)

Chapter 2 Pangs of Conscience & Spiritual Guilt

Chapter 3 Psychological Depression & Spiritual Depression

Chapter 4 Relative Meaninglessness & Spiritual Meaninglessness

Chapter 5 Filling Our Spiritual Void

Chapter 6 Ordinary Insecurity & Spiritual Insecurity

Chapter 7 Sinking into the River of Despair

Chapter 8 Simple Fear & Spiritual Anxiety

Afterword: Obstacles to Grace


    A few more interesting facts and perspectives on Opening to Grace
will appear if you click that title.


An Existential Interpretation of

Paul's Letter to the Romans

by James Park

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 1991—2nd edition)
80 pages plus a 16-page appendix on existential guilt
(ISBN: 0-89231-201-7; large format (8.5 X 11 inches) paperback)
(ISBN: 0-89231-200-9; small format (8.5 X 5.5 inches) paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BS2665.2.P37 1991)

    Our Existential Predicament is not an invention of the 20th century,
altho existential philosophy and psychology of the 19th and 20th century
have brought our Existential or Spiritual Malaise into new focus.
The earliest recorded awareness of our Spiritual Dilemma
is  found in the letters of Paul,
written 2000 years ago and collected in the New Testament.

    James Park gives a careful analysis to Paul's most important letter
—Romans—searching for the existential meanings
often hidden in the language and images Paul uses,
and which have become so familiar at least to Christians
that they have lost most of their original meaning.

    Paul's basic message is the we are caught in a Predicament
from which we cannot release ourselves.
But emancipation from our Spiritual Dilemma or Spiritual Malaise
is possible as a gift—if we discover how to re-orient ourselves.

    'Sin' and 'death' are two of the most important
perspectives Paul uses to view our inner Predicament.
In this interpretation 'sin' does not mean misbehaving;
rather, Paul points to a sense of guilt much deeper than behavior
—an existential or spiritual guilt, which is independent of morality.

    Likewise, when Paul speaks of 'death',
he is not referring merely to a biological process that ends life.
Rather he is pointing toward what modern philosophers
have described as being-towards-death or ontological anxiety.

    Some other powerful Christian concepts
are given a similar existential interpretation:
grace, expiation-sacrifice, justification, redemption,
forgiveness, baptism, new self, adoption, grafting-in.
Describing how we re-orient ourselves
to move from our Spiritual Malaise to Spiritual Freedom
is one of the most difficult tasks of the Christian thinker.
Paul used every image and metaphor that came into his head.
Romans: An Existential Interpretation
(the short title for the second edition)
makes the transformation described by Paul in the first century
intelligible for the careful reader of the 21st century.
This book follows the approach of existential theologian and NT scholar,
Rudolf Bultmann, who attempted to uncover
the personal, existential meanings of New Testament mythology.
This is perhaps the only book of "demythologizing"
that explores the text line-by-line, myth-by-myth, image-by-image,
attempting to make Paul's thought intelligible for our time.
It shows how Paul—thinking as a first-century person—
was already aware of what we now call our Existential Predicament.
In fact, the chapter on existential guilt from
Our Existential Predicament is included as an appendix.

Small format paperback (8.5" X 5.5"); 96 pages:
$7.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling; ISBN: 0-89231-200-9.

Large format paperback (8.5" X 11"); 96 pages:
$10.00 plus $3.00 postage and handling: ISBN: 0-89231-201-7.

Library of Congress call number: BS2665.2.P37 1991

    If you would like to know more about this book,
the Table of Contents, copyright page, and one page from Chapter 5
will be found here:
Romans Demythologized: An Existential Interpretation.
That is the projected name for a possible 3rd edition.
 


TWO BOOKS IN MEDICAL ETHICS

When is a Person?

Pre-Persons and Former Persons

    This essay in medical ethics
defines a person as a human individual having:

(1) consciousness,
(2) memory,
(3) language, &
(4) autonomy.

Each of these four sections has several questions proxies
can use for discussing whether a particular individual is still a person.

    "When Is a Person?" is now 68 pages in the fourth draft.
The complete text is available on this home page:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/PERSON.html

If you have no internet access, a printed and stapled copy
will appear in your mailbox if you send: $4.00 plus $3.00 P & H.


Ten Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions

    This essay in medical ethics favors
voluntary death and merciful death,
when carried out under the following safeguards:

1. Living Will and/or other Request for Death from the Candidate.

2. Psychological Consultant
        Certifies that the Candidate is Competent to Decide.

3. Doctor's Summary of Condition and Prognosis.

4. Independent Doctor Confirms the Condition and Prognosis.

5. Significant Others Agree with the Life-Ending Decision.

6. Member of the Clergy Approves the Life-Ending Decision.

7. Ethics Committee Reviews the Life-Ending Decision.

8. Criminal and Civil Penalties for Causing Premature Death.

9. Waiting Periods Before Death is Permitted.

10. Complete Reporting of all Material Facts.

Encloses a draft law called "Causing Premature Death".

28 pages; small format booklet (8.5" X 5.5"); $1.00 + $1.00 P & H.

    This essay has been expanded on the Internet into a Safeguards Website:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SG.html
There over 30 safeguards for life-ending decisions are discussed.


TWO BOOKS ON DEATH
Your Last Year
Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books: www.existentialbooks.com, 2006)       248 pages
(ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: KF3827.E87.P37 2006)

   Your Last Year asks 24 basic, open-ended Questions
that should be answered by each person
to create a comprehensive Advance Directive for Medical Care.
Your written Answers to these Questions
will become the basic content of your Advance Directive.
And when you fulfill the specific requirements of your state or country,
your Advance Directive will become your legal instructions for medical care.
You will decide your medical ethics, including such matters as:
appointing proxies to make your medical decisions;
what quality of life or level of personhood you would find acceptable;
pain control; nursing home; financial limits; medical information;
life-ending decisions; disposition of your remains;
philosophical-religious beliefs; & readiness for death.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Table of Contents for Your Last Year
These four pages gives a complete picture of what Your Last Year contains.
Several selections from the book are linked from this Table of Contents.
These pages shared on the Internet amount to about 45 pages total,
or about 25% of the book.
When James Park's Advance Directive is also included,
about 40% of the book is available on the Internet.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:

AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE: Your Last Year
SUBTITLE: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: KF3827.E87.P37 2006
NUMBER OF PAGES: 248
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide  X  11 inches high  X  1/2 inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE: http://www.existentialbooks.com
PUBLICATION DATE:  June, 20061st edition
FRONT COVER
BINDING: 5 aluminum screw posts—does not lie flat when open
BINDING: comb—19 plastic rings in a black spine—does lie flat when open
BINDING: loose-leaf notebook—choice of colors—does lie flat when open
ISBN: 978-0-89231-800-1
WEBSITE FOR THIS BOOK: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YLY.html 
LIST PRICE: $80 US
WHOLESALE PRICE: $35

    The following items are available on the author's home page:

Table of contents—4 pages:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/AD-OUT-NET.html

Questions for Your 'Living Will':

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Q-L-WILL.html

'Living Will' Workshop descriptions:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-LWW.html

James Park's 'Living Will'—50 pages:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/JP-LW.html

Books on Advance Directives:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/B-AD.html

For more information about Your Last Year, go to:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/YLY.html


An Existential Understanding of Death

A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety

(Minneapolis, MN: Existential Books, 2001—4th edition)       72 pages
(ISBN: 0-89231-949-6; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: BD444.P37 2001)

    After discussing 8 common ways in which we deny, evade,
cover-up, and repress the deeper dimensions of death,
this book—drawing on insights provided by Martin Heidegger—
creates the new concept "ontological anxiety",
which differs both from the physical-biological-medical fact of death
and from our emotional-subjective-personal fear of ceasing-to-be.
This existential-phenomenological approach
requires a paradigm shift in our thinking about death,
but this new model may make better sense
of what we are already deeply feeling.

    The first three sections of this book explore and distinguish
the following three dimensions of death:
Each dimension of death may be described in 7 corresponding features:

THE FACT OF DEATH

1. intellectual construct.
2. empirical fact.
3. observable occurrence.
4. finitude.
5. objective-external.
6. abstract-general.
7. unowned.

THE FEAR OF CEASING-TO-BE

1. emotional response.
2. arises from empirical fact.
3. personal apprehension.
4. awareness of my finitude.
5. subjective-deep.
6. specific-personal.
7. owned.

ONTOLOGICAL ANXIETY

1. inner state-of-being
2. arises from my internal 'nothing'.
3. existential disclosure.
4. constant internal threat.
5. arises from the core of my self.
6. more mine than my death.
7. lays claim to my self.

    The full table of contents of An Existential Understanding of Death
will appear on your computer screen if the click the following line of code:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/XP181.html

72 pages; $8.00 plus $3.00 postage & handling.

Large format paperback (11 inches X 8.5 inches).

    This book is also published as the longest chapter of
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death,
which is James Park's longest book.
So if you plan to buy Our Existential Predicament ,
there is no need to buy An Existential Understanding of Death.

    The author regards this as his best book,
but it is also the most difficult to understand.
Persons unfamiliar with existential and phenomenological thinking
are urged to start with one of the easier chapters of
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death.

    For more information about An Existential Understanding of Death, go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/UD.html
Among other things, you will find some interesting excerpts from this book.



How to order any of these books by mail

    Anyone (individuals, bookstores, libraries, wholesalers, etc.)
may order the books listed above directly from the publisher.

The prices listed are wholesale prices.

Suggested retail price is more than double the wholesale price.

Step one: List the books you want and their wholesale prices.

Step two: For delivery anywhere in the State of Minnesota,
add 7.15% to the wholesale total for state and local sales taxes.

Step three: Add postage and handling charge, listed after the price.

The maximum postage and handling charge is $5.00 per package.

(Additional shipping costs for delivery outside the United States
or for orders over 10 pounds.)

Step four: Send your name and address & check or money-order to:
 

Existential Books
Lofts on Arts Avenue #218
1829 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404-2185


You should receive your books in the mail in about ten days.

Questions? e-mail address: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone: (612) 871-PARK.

April  2008


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