Experience: New Foundations for the Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780745695143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Scott Lash

Opis

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.

Recenzje

In this book, Scott Lash analyses the diverse meanings of a concept key to the social sciences and provides a hermeneutic lens through which the languages of sociology, anthropology, technology and art illuminate one another. A broadening of perspective, engaging with Chinese cosmology at the end of the book, distinguishes Experience as a truly global account of our age.
Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

In his remarkable book, Scott Lash weaves his way through eras and cultures to construct a possible theory transcultural and transhistorical of what most defies theory. The empirical option he gradually develops can indeed, after James and Arendt, erect experience as philosophy′s decisive issue.
François Jullien, Fondation maison des sciences de l homme, Paris

"This is a book of amazing scholarly scope. It stands out as an extremely serious study that does not pander to fads and fashions nor seek approval from readers. Here is a major statement that will surprise many who think they are familiar with Lash′s thought."
Philip Smith, Yale University

Spis treści

• Contents
• Introduction: Three Types of Experience
• Chapter One
• Have We Forgotten Experience?
• 1.1 In Praise of the A Posteriori
• 1.2 Substance
• 1.3 New Totalitarianisms and Technological Phenomenology: The Chapters
• Chapter Two
• Experience in Antiquity: Aristotle s A Posteriori Technics
• 2.1 Technics and Praxis: Aristotle
• 2.2 Against Theoretical Reason: Praxis, Technics, Contingency
• 2.3 Form and Substance: Ancients, Christians and Moderns
• Chapter Three
• Subjective Experience: William James s Radical Empiricism
• 3.1 James s Radical Empiricism
• 3.1.1 James and Hume: Radical Empiricism and Classical Empiricism
• 3.1.2 Experience and its Functions
• 3.2 Pragmatism: Activities
• 3.3 Dewey or Formal Pragmatics
• 3.4 Some Conclusions
• Chapter Four
• Objective Experience: Methodenstreit and Homo Economicus
• 4.1 Methodenstreit: Formalists and Substantivists
• 4.1.1 Historical School: Subjective Experience and Institutions
• 4.1.2 Max Weber: Subjective Experience as Method, Objective Experience as Outcome
• 4.2 Classicals and Neoclassicals
• 4.2.1 Physics and Economics: From Conservation of Substance to Field of Utilities
• 4.2.2 Scottish Enlightenment
• 4.3 Conclusions: The Economic and the Political
• Chapter Five
• Hannah Arendt s A Posteriori Politics: Free Will, Judgment, and Constitutional Fragility
• 5.1 Ancients and Moderns
• 5.2 Pax Romana
• 5.3 After the Polis: Augustine and Free Will
• 5.4 Politics as Aesthetic Judgment
• 5.5 Conclusions: From Politics to the Technological System
• Chapter Six
• Forms of Life: Technological Phenomenology
• 6.1 Forms of Life: Transformations of Performative Language
• 6.1.1 Forms of Life and Exclusion: Homo sacer s experience
• 6.1.2 Language and Forms of life
• 6.2 Technological Forms of Life
• 6.2.1 Communicational Forms of Life
• 6.2.2 Entropy against Negentropy
• 6.2.3 Incompleteness: From Predications (Science) to Algorithms (Engineering)
• 6.2.4 System Encounter: War Games or Sex Games?
• 6.3 Conclusions
• Chapter Seven
• Aesthetic Multiplicity: The View and the Ten Thousand Things
• 7.1 Fuzzy Singularities
• 7.1.1 Views
• 7.1.2 Art and Singularities
• 7.2 The Gaze as Multiplicity
• 7.2.1 Beauty: China against Metaphysics
• 7.2.2 Mountains that Breathe (and Perceive)
• Chapter Eight
• Conclusions
• 8.1 Technology
• 8.2 Institutions
• 8.3 Metaphysics or Empirical Multiplicity

O autorze

Scott Lash is Professor of Journalism and Communications at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford.