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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience." Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and why so many thinkers in so many different traditions have been compelled to understand it. Songs of Experience is a remarkable history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience written by one of our best-known intellectual historians. With its sweeping historical reach and lucid comparative analysis - qualities that have made Martin.

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