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1 online resource (291) |
Series |
Advances in Consciousness Research Ser. ; Vol. 43 |
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Advances in Consciousness Research Ser. ; vol. 43
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Contents |
Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: A guide for the perplexed -- Part I. The structural dynamics of becoming aware -- Chapter 1. The basic cycle -- Chapter 2. The structure of a session -- Chapter 3. Surrounding events: The specific temporal logic of training, motivation and postsession work -- Part II. The motivations for the study of experiencing -- Chapter 4. The point of view of the researcher -- Chapter 5. Concerning practice -- Chapter 6. The philosophical challenge -- Chapter 7. Wisdom traditions and the ways of reduction -- Open conclusion -- Postface -- References -- Glossary of terms -- Sources -- Index -- The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH |
Summary |
This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a priori 'new theory' of experience but instead they describe a concrete activity: how we examine what we live through, how we become aware of our own mental life. The range of experiences of which we can become aware is vast: all the normal dimensions of human life (perception, motion, memory, imagination |
Subject |
Experience.
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Awareness.
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Awareness.
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Experience.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Depraz, Nathalie.
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Varela, Francisco J.
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Vermersch, Pierre.
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ISBN |
9027296839 |
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9789027296832 |
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1282255452 |
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9781282255456 |
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