modern American and European variations on a universal theme /
Martin Jay
x, 431 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon -- Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism -- The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber -- Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey -- Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists -- History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit -- The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty -- Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno -- The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault