A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science

by Marco Caracciolo and Russell Hurlburt

Book Overview

In an analytical yet increasingly intimate conversation, A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science investigates the differences between experience as conveyed in literature and experience as apprehended through scientific method. Can experiences be shared? How much do language and metaphor shape experiential reports? Where is the dividing line between a humanistic and a scientific approach to experience?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081425375X
• ISBN13: 9780814253755
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"