Martin Jay

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Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal ThemePaperback, 10 January 2005

Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
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Print Length
441 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
10 Jan 2005
ISBN-10
0520248236
ISBN-13
9780520248236

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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 Jay's previous books so distinctive and so successful--Songs of Experience explores Western discourse from the sixteenth century to the present, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy. Resisting any single overarching narrative, Jay discovers themes and patterns that transcend individuals and particular schools of thought and illuminate the entire spectrum of intellectual history.

As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience--epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical--Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, and he delves into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures.

Product Details

Author:
Martin Jay
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 January 2005
Dimensions:
22.76 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
0520248236
ISBN-13:
9780520248236
Language:
English
Pages:
441
Weight:
603.28 gm

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