What We Mean by Experience.
Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this pro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James, by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both, a holdov. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804784306 0804784302 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |