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Experience - New Foundations for the Human Sciences (Hardcover)
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Experience - New Foundations for the Human Sciences (Hardcover)
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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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