Experience : new foundations for the human sciences /

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Author / Creator:	Lash, Scott, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	vii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Experience. Social sciences. Experience. Social sciences.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11806606

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ISBN:	9780745695143 0745695140 9780745695150 0745695159
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index.
Summary:	"This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Scott Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions stemming from positivism, in contrast to the tradition of interpretative social enquiry pioneered by Max Weber. These assumptions are particularly central to economics, with its emphasis on homo economicus, the utility-maximizing, instrumental actor, but they have infiltrated the other social sciences too. Lash argues for a social sciences based not in positivisms utilitarian a priori but instead in the a posteriori of grounded and embedded subjective experience. This features a politics of Hannah Arendts public sphere, which begins with the particular experience of Aristotles polis and moves - via Rome, Augustine and Kant - to a modernity that acknowledges the fragility of political worlds. Yet modernity is also a matter of technological experience and technological forms of life. Lash - starting from Aristotles technics and working through Turings and Shannons computer mediation develops a novel account of technological experience, of how objects themselves experience. And here he finds a surprising convergence with Chinese cosmologys ethos of dao, qi and li: the experience of the embedded multiplicity of the ten thousand things. This original book by a leading social and cultural theorist will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences, from sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and politics"--
Other form:	Online version: Lash, Scott. Experience. 1. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2018 9780745695181
Standard no.:	40028384959

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Four Types of Experience
1. Have We Forgotten Experience?
2. Experience in Antiquity: Aristotle's A Posteriori Technics
3. Subjective Experience: William James's Radical Empiricism
4. Objective Experience: Methodenstreit and Homo Economicus
5. Hannah Arendt's A Posteriori Politics: Free Will, Judgment and Constitutional Fragility
6. Forms of Life: Technological Phenomenology
7. Aesthetic Multiplicity: The View and the Ten Thousand Things
8. Conclusions.

Experience : new foundations for the human sciences /

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