Experience

Plt;bPgt;The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith.Plt;/bPgt; Plt;bPgt;P#39;Part memoir, part confessional, Plt;iPgt;ExperiencePlt;/iPgt; is a gentle coming to terms about the stuff of lifeP#8217; Plt;iPgt;GuardianPlt;/iPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITHPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish P#8212; from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;**ONE OF THE Plt;iPgt;GUARDIANPlt;/iPgt;P#39;S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;P#39;Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now.Plt;iPgt; ExperiencePlt;/iPgt;, the book of his life, may be Plt;iPgt;the Plt;/iPgt;book of his lifeP#39; Plt;iPgt;Daily TelegraphPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;

Plt;bPgt;The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith.Plt;/bPgt; Plt;bPgt;P#39;Part memoir, part confessional, Plt;iPgt;ExperiencePlt;/iPgt; is a gentle coming to terms about the stuff of lifeP#8217; Plt;iPgt;GuardianPlt;/iPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITHPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish P#8212; from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;**ONE OF THE Plt;iPgt;GUARDIANPlt;/iPgt;P#39;S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;P#39;Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now.Plt;iPgt; ExperiencePlt;/iPgt;, the book of his life, may be Plt;iPgt;the Plt;/iPgt;book of his lifeP#39; Plt;iPgt;Daily TelegraphPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;

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.

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.

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed in-depth monograph on one of the most influential artists of our time Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, this updated survey tracks Eliasson's artistic practice from the 1990s to the present day, including recent exhibitions at Tate Modern, London ( In real life, 2019) and the Beyeler Foundation, Basel ( Life , 2021). Through hundreds of illustrations bracketed by writings on and by Eliasson, this book provides an unparalleled overview of his remarkably accessible output, from such large-scale interactive experiences as The weather project at Tate Modern, London (2003) to smaller, more delicate works on paper or made of glass, and includes photography, painting, and film.