{"id":1911,"date":"2025-06-20T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenlangfur.com\/?page_id=1911"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:37:23","slug":"endorsements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stephenlangfur.com\/en\/endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>\u201cPhilosophy Meets the Infant<\/em>&nbsp;is a short book, yet it reads like an epic. It guides the reader through a gallery of scenes from the perspective of the infant, creating a new language as it goes along. In dialogue with philosophers and psychologists, Langfur offers a compelling, new unifying perspective on the development of self, applying it to different spheres of existence such as love, art, and religion. The concept of the&nbsp;You-I Event&nbsp;introduced here is a pivotal idea that scholars will need to engage with moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Alessandra Fasulo, PhD,<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Department of Psychology,&nbsp;University of Portsmouth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cLangfur\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Philosophy Meets the Infant<\/em>&nbsp;draws on infancy research to approach philosophical questions that have long existed. What are the origins of self-awareness? We learn about ourselves through interactions with others. This is true in infancy and throughout our lives. Langfur takes this truth to intriguing levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Ann Bigelow<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Professor Emerita and Senior Research Professor in Developmental Psychology at St. Francis Xavier University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPsychology\u2019s greatest contribution to modernity may be its affirmation of the profound significance of our earliest experiences. Yet, when it comes to the intensely intimate, subtle, and personal dynamic between caregivers and infants, experiment is not enough. A broader approach is necessary for understanding the I-you connection that grounds our relations with self, others, and world. In this work, Langfur applies the approach of continental philosophy in a way that illuminates and brings to life the field of infant studies and reversibly \u2013 philosophy itself. He places the caregiver-infant relationship at the center of philosophical discourse, giving it the status it has always deserved. This is a unique interdisciplinary endeavor that addresses a longstanding need in our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>James Morley, PhD,<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Professor of Clinical Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Editor-in-Chief,&nbsp;<\/em>Journal of Phenomenological Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cConnecting philosophy with recent infancy studies, Langfur reopens the great old questions of being and meaning. He talks about love and work, art and religion, conversation and ethics. His fresh approach had me rethinking issues that I had settled or tabled. Others may find themselves, as I did, not only reading Langfur\u2019s book but being read by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Ted L. Estess<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Dean Emeritus of the Honors College at the University of Houston<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSimone Weil says that attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity; Langfur presses further, in the tradition of Buber but incorporating infancy research. He challenges us with the possibility that another person\u2019s attention creates our sense of being. His book may well initiate a new phase of conversation about personhood, informed by both philosophy and psychology.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>W. F. \u201cBill\u201d Monroe<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>author of&nbsp;<\/em>Power to Hurt: The Virtues of Alienation<em>, as well as&nbsp;<\/em>Primary Care<em>, a medical drama about dementia and personhood<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlangfur.com\/order-now\/\">Order the book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPhilosophy Meets the Infant&nbsp;is a short book, yet it reads like an epic. 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