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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798429406719 |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804784306 |
