Mark Aman

After four years of study in phenomenology and existential psychotherapy at Duquesne University and on the verge of a Ph.D., I left the world of 'words, words, words' 40 years ago in favor of the making of marionettes from wood. But I didn't stop thinking and re-initiated my dissertation topic, 'The Lived Experience of Time', in 2007. After 13 years of fitful writing, the result is a book entitled, 'The Idea of Man - Concepts of Human Ontology'. It builds an idea of human being around the key concept of human verticality... the 'upright posture' that is understood as the original and essential precondition to all the 'higher faculties' that make us human... reason, language, art and our sense of 'Rightness' and justice in all things. The book is perhaps best described as an anthropological ontology that is conceived in unison with an ontological anthropology.