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Book Review: Collaborative projects: An interdisciplinary study
When I was asked to review this book, I was immediately
intrigued by the title. As someone influenced by the philosophical
legacy of phenomenology and existential humanism through
Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre, I have always understood the project
as a life-project of which I am the author seeking to overcome the
facticity, or the inescapable conditions of my existence, in order to
realise myself in the world. Such a project takes courage: in pro -
jecting myself into the world I simultaneously find and lose myself,
but without this attempt I do not exist at all. In recent years I
have come to increasingly question this account of the human
project. Could the idea of ‘collaborative projects’ be a more positive
way of seeing the social world in which I live, as a world where
other people are not simply an obstacle to my self-realisation?
intrigued by the title. As someone influenced by the philosophical
legacy of phenomenology and existential humanism through
Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre, I have always understood the project
as a life-project of which I am the author seeking to overcome the
facticity, or the inescapable conditions of my existence, in order to
realise myself in the world. Such a project takes courage: in pro -
jecting myself into the world I simultaneously find and lose myself,
but without this attempt I do not exist at all. In recent years I
have come to increasingly question this account of the human
project. Could the idea of ‘collaborative projects’ be a more positive
way of seeing the social world in which I live, as a world where
other people are not simply an obstacle to my self-realisation?
