Songs of Experience
Subtitle: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780520242722
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Topics in philosophy; Philosophy; History; History: World; Europe; The Americas; History & Surveys - General; History / General; Experience; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Europe - General
First sentence: "'EXPERIENCE', OF ALL THE WORDS in the philosophic vocabulary is the most difficult to manage;" warns Michael Oakeshott, "and it must be the ambition of every writer reckless enough to use the word to escape the ambiguities it contains."