Experience and Its Modes

Informationen zum Autor Michael Oakeshott (1901–90) was a philosopher and a political theorist who wrote widely on the philosophy of aesthetics, education, history, law, political philosophy and religion. He is perhaps best known as a conservative political and social thinker. Klappentext This classic work, first published in 1933, is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding. Zusammenfassung Michael Oakeshott's classic discussion of modality and human experience in relation to the practical! the historical and the scientific modes of understanding is presented in a new series livery with a specially commissioned preface! written by Paul Franco! for twenty-first-century readers! in recognition of its enduring importance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to this edition Paul Franco; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Experience and its modes; 3. Historical experience; 4. Scientific experience; 5. Practical experience; 6. Conclusion; Index.

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• Authors: Michael Oakeshott, Oakeshott Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107113589
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11358-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics; Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge