{"product_id":"songs-of-experience-martin-jay-9780520248236","title":"Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience \u003c\/i\u003eis 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--\u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Jay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520248236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520248236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Martin Jay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128478265599,"sku":"9780520248236","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a2036ec-7cc1-487f-917b-17aa682522ad.jpg?v=1687458861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/songs-of-experience-martin-jay-9780520248236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}