On becoming aware : a pragmatics of experiencing / [edited by] Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Depraz, Natalie, Author.

Contributor:

Depraz, Natalie.

Varela, Francisco J., 1946-

Vermersch, Pierre.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 43.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

Awareness.

Physical Description:

291 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a priori 'new theory' of experience but instead they describe a concrete activity: how we examine what we live through, how we become aware of our own mental life. The range of experiences of which we can become aware is vast: all the normal dimensions of human life (perception, motion, memory, imagination, speech, everyday social interactions), cognitive events that can be precisely defined as tasks in laboratory experiments (e.g., a protocol for visual attention), but also manifestations of mental life more fraught with meaning (dreaming, intense emotions, social tensions, altered states of consciousness). The central assertion in this work is that this immanent ability is habitually ignored or at best practiced unsystematically, that is to say, blindly. Exploring human experience amounts to developing and cultivating this basic ability through specific training. Only a hands-on, non-dogmatic approach can lead to progress, and that is what animates this book. (Series B).

Contents:

On Becoming Aware

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Introduction: A guide for the perplexed

Part I. The structural dynamics of becoming aware

Chapter 1. The basic cycle

Chapter 2. The structure of a session

Chapter 3. Surrounding events: The specific temporal logic of training, motivation and postsession work

Part II.The motivations for the study of experiencing

Chapter 4. The point of view of the researcher

Chapter 5. Concerning practice

Chapter 6. The philosophical challenge

Chapter 7. Wisdom traditions and the ways of reduction

Open conclusion

Postface

References

Glossary of terms

Sources

Index

The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255458

9781423766476

1423766474

9789027251633

9027251630

9789027296832

9027296839

9781282255456

1282255452

OCLC:

732804915