Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Trial Of “Experience”: From The Greeks To Montaigne And Bacon 9
6. 2. Experience And Epistemology: The Contest Between Empiricism And Idealism 40
7. 3. The Appeal Of Religious Experience: Schleiermacher, James, Otto, And Buber 78
8. 4. Returning To The Body Through Aesthetic Experience: From Kant To Dewey 131
9. 5. Politics And Experience: Burke, Oakeshott, And The English Marxists 170
10. 6. History And Experience: Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, And Ankersmit 216
11. 7. The Cult Of Experience In American Pragmatism: James, Dewey, And Rorty 261
12. 8. Lamenting The Crisis Of Experience: Benjamin And Adorno 312
13. 9. The Poststructuralist Reconstitution Of Experience: Bataille, Barthes, And Foucault 361
14. Conclusion 401
15. Index 411