Art and Experience

In recent years, "experience" has been one of the most ambiguous, evasive, and controversial terms in myriad disciplines including epistemology, religion, literary theory, and philosophical aesthetics. Its association with the subjective consciousness has deprived it of the cognitive status of human knowledge. Art and Experience aims to grasp a firmer hold on this elusive concept, via essays written by a distinguished group of international scholars who have rediscovered the foundation of experience and restored its cognitive status in understanding our cultural activities. Indeed, emotions and experience play a vital role in human cognition, and the symbiotic relationship between culture and experience is a subject long overdue for further study. This volume's broad approach makes it an invaluable contribution to the study of the humanities.

ANANTA CH. SUKLA is Professor of English at Sambalpur University in India. He is the founding editor of The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and the editor of the Praeger series Studies in Art, Culture, and Communication.