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Jack R. Wikse, Professor of Social Sciences

Wikse, a member of the Shimer faculty since 1979, is presently on leave.  At Shimer Wikse has taught the entire Social Sciences core numerous times, teaches frequently in the Humanities, and has taught the capstone courses Integrative Studies 5

and 6 both in Chicago and Oxford.  Wikse has also taught in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at the Sonoma State University, California, and at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1974
M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1967
B.A., Political Science (Phi Beta Kappa), University of California, Berkeley, 1966

ELECTIVES AND TUTORIALS TAUGHT

Plato                            
Machiavelli
Nietzsche                       
Arendt
Twentieth Century Thinkers on Thinking       
Dream Psychology
History and Development of Psychotherapy     
Comparative Mythology
Somatic Psychology                   
Taoism   
Classical Eastern Thought               
The Idea of the Market   
Studio Course in Soft-stone Sculpture       
Yoga Psychology

AREAS OF INTEREST/SPECIALIZATION

Major interest in Political Theory; interest in Political Psychology, American Politics, and Philosophy; Wikse is also a poet and sculptor.

PUBLICATIONS

About Possession: the Self as Private Property, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 1977.

“Marx on Authenticity and the Liberal View of Man,” in Liberalism and the Modern Polity: Essays in Contemporary Political Theory, ed., M. McGrath, Marcel Dekker, N.Y.1977.

“Night-rule:  Dreams as Social Information,” in The Variety of Dream Experience, ed., Montague Ullman, Continuum Publishing Company, N.Y. 1987;  (Revised for second edition, SUNY Press, 1999).

“Thoughts and Emotions as Between and Within,” Group Analysis, London, UK, December 1991.
               
Introduction to Experience and Concept: the Notebooks of Hans Syz, M.D., edited by Deborah Hillman, Lifwynn Foundation Publication, Westport CT, 1997.

“Cosmopolitan Ethics”.  Review Essay of Peter Singer’s One World.  The Common Review, Spring, 2004, Vol. 3, No. 1.

“Apeiron and Dialogue”: Review essay on Steven Rosen”s Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time, and Individuation.  The Journal of Mind and Behavior, March 2005.

LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA

“Dreams and Politics.”  Lecture, Friendshouse, Santa Rosa, CA, September 2, 2004.

“Practical Anthropology: Studying Our Social Neurosis.”  Shimer College Lecture Series, November 16, 2004.

“Dreams as Social Information.” Workshop, Shimer College, November 17, 2004

“Slowing Things Down: Gelassenheit and the Somatics of Dialogue”.  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Boston, November 9, 2003.

“The Rules of War”.  Public lecture, Windows Gallery, Berkeley, CA, September 11, 2002.

 “Plato’s Conception of Democracy.”  Paper given at the meetings of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, San Francisco, CA, April 19, 2000.

“Dreams, Dialogue and Bi-polarity.”  Paper presented at the meetings of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy, Montreal, Canada, August 5, 1992.

“Dialogue as Group Meditation.”  Lecture given to Westport School of Adult Education, Westport, CT, January 12, 1991.