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On Becoming Aware
Nathalie Depraz
Francisco J. Varela
Pierre Vermersch
其他書名
A pragmatics of experiencing
出版
John Benjamins Publishing
, 2003-03-20
主題
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology
ISBN
9789027296832
9027296839
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iYJy_2909NAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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, speech, everyday social interactions), cognitive events that can be precisely defined as tasks in laboratory experiments (e.g., a protocol for visual attention), but also manifestations of mental life more fraught with meaning (dreaming, intense emotions, social tensions, altered states of consciousness). The central assertion in this work is that this immanent ability is habitually ignored or at best practiced unsystematically, that is to say, blindly. Exploring human experience amounts to developing and cultivating this basic ability through specific training. Only a hands-on, non-dogmatic approach can lead to progress, and that is what animates this book. (Series B)