Experience: New Foundations for the Human SciencesJohn Wiley & Sons, 4.7.2018 - 200 sivua This book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. 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. These assumptions are particularly central to economics, with its emphasis on homo economicus, the utility-maximizing actor, but they have infiltrated the other social sciences too. Lash argues for a social sciences based not in positivism’s utilitarian a priori but instead in the a posteriori of grounded and embedded subjective experience. His wide-ranging account starts from considerations of ancient experience via Aristotle’s technics, continues through a politics of Hannah Arendt’s ‘a posteriori’ public sphere and concludes with the contemporary – with technological experience, on the one hand, and with Chinese post-ontological thought, in which the ‘ten thousand things’ themselves are doing the experiencing, on the other. This original book by a leading social and cultural theorist will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, cultural studies and throughout the social sciences. |
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1 Have We Forgotten Experience? | 14 |
Aristotles A Posteriori Technics | 33 |
William Jamess Radical Empiricism | 50 |
Methodenstreit and Homo Economicus | 72 |
Free Will Judgment and Constitutional Fragility | 96 |
Technological Phenomenology | 128 |
The View and the Ten Thousand Things | 160 |
8 Conclusions | 184 |
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| 202 | |
EULA | 213 |
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action activity aesthetic Agamben algorithms Arendt Aristotle Aristotle’s Augustine Augustine’s Augustinian axioms beauty Benjamin’s capital Carl Schmitt causation cause Chapter Chinese chrematistics Christian classical cognitive communication consciousness context contrast cybernetics Durkheim empirical empiricist entropy episteme Erlebnis ethics eudemonia facts faculties formal Foucault Gödel Greek Historical School homo economicus homo sacer human sciences Hume Hume’s idea institutions James James’s judgment Jullien Kant Kant’s Kantian labour language games logic machine mathematical matter means mechanics Menger metaphysics Methodenstreit Mirowski modern nature negentropic neoclassical economics neoclassicism neoliberalism Neumann Newtonian Nicomachean Ethics notion objective experience oikos ordoliberalism paradigm particular perception phenomenology Plato Polanyi polis political positivism positivist posteriori pragmatism praxis predications priori pure question radical empiricism rational reason Schmitt Schmoller sense sensus communis Shitao singular Smith social Sombart substance substantivism substantivist technē technics technological experience technological forms theory things thinking Third Critique today’s transcendental Turing universal Weber Wittgenstein