Songs of experience : modern American and European variations on a universal theme / Martin Jay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jay, Martin, 1944-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Expérience.

Histoire--Philosophie.

Local Subjects:

Expérience.

Histoire--Philosophie.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 431 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]

Contents:

The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon

Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism

The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber

Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey

Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists

History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit

The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty

Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno

The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is first paperback printing, 2006.

ISBN:

0520242726

9780520242722

0520248236

9780520248236

OCLC:

55106381

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