Surrender and Catch - Experience and Inquiry Today (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976)

Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience. This is scarcely new on the American scene, and it is ancient knowledge, East and West. The fears of total surrender, the fears of self-revelation and of total abandon, although genuine, are likewise not new. Yet Kurt H. Wolff does attempt something new here, an epistemologi cal essay with the help of this old idea: his subtitle is 'experience and inquiry today'. He tries to formulate an integrated view which incorporates in the theory of total experience not only the accepted component- esthetics, religion, the recent American experience - but also a metaphysics, a phenomenology, a theory of perception, a social philosophy and a methodology of the social sciences, even a philosophy of history and psychopathology. Phenomenology (especially Alfred Schutz), the critical Frankfurt school (especially Adorno and Marcuse), sociology (especially Georg Simmel), and existentialism (especially Camus) are tied in together. It all looks topsy-turvy at first. We have here scraps of a diary, fragments of correspondence, a stray adolescent love letter, notes on notes on field work, and notes and comments on tutorial seminars plus long excerpts from students' essays, a stray paper in a learned journal summarizing the core of the book, comments piled on comments and a web of self-references, literary criticisms, and pieces of poetry, plus a rich scholarly apparatus."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 51
Release date:	September 1977
First published:	1976
Authors:	K. H. Wolff
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	422
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-0765-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	90-277-0765-0
Barcode:	9789027707659

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