Experience and its Modes
Experience and its Modes
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9780521311793This classic work 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.
Reviews & endorsements
'Mr. Oakeshott's thesis … is so original, so important and so profound that criticism must be silent until his meaning has been long pondered … the chapter on history is the most penetrating analysis of historical thought that has ever been written … the whole book shows Mr Oakeshott to possess philosophical gifts of a very high order, coupled with an admirable command of language; his writing is as clear as his thought is profound, and all students of philosophy should be grateful to him for his brilliant contribution to philosophical literature.' R. G. Collingwood, The Cambridge Review
Product details
June 1978Hardback
9780521058520
0 pages
0.61kg
Replaced by 9780521311793
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Experience and its modes
- 3. Historical experience
- 4. Scientific experience
- 5. Practical experience
- 6. Conclusion.
