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Title On Becoming Aware. A pragmatics of experiencing
Published John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003

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Description 1 online resource (291)
Series Advances in Consciousness Research Ser. ; Vol. 43
Advances in Consciousness Research Ser. ; vol. 43
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.
Awareness.
Awareness.
Experience.
Form Electronic book
Author Depraz, Nathalie.
Varela, Francisco J.
Vermersch, Pierre.
ISBN 9027296839
9789027296832
1282255452
9781282255456