Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self

by Matthew H. Bowker

Book Overview

Matthew H. Bowker offers a novel analysis of "experience" the vast and influential concept that has shaped Western social theory and political practice for the past half-millennium.

While it is difficult to find a branch of modern thought, science, industry, or art that has not relied in some way on the notion of "experience" in defining its assumptions or aims, no study has yet applied a politically-conscious and psychologically-sensitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138182672
• ISBN13: 9781138182677
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"