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A lyrical, provocative journey into the art, memory, and meaning of experience.What does it mean to have...
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A lyrical, provocative journey into the art, memory, and meaning of experience.
What does it mean to have an experience? When did we begin to believe we could "have" one at all? In Experience: A History, Lawrence Kramer traces the cultural birth of experience as a singular, life-defining event. Moving lyrically between criticism and memoir, he guides readers from Petrarch and Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf and Anne Carson; from Haydn's luminous Creation to Billie Holiday's searing "Strange Fruit." Along the way we encounter Niagara Falls and the Galápagos, Parisian department stores and Manhattan nightclubs, and luminaries such as Franz Schubert, Henry and William James, and Benjamin Britten.
As early as the fourteenth century and accelerating after the eighteenth, records of concentrated, unforgettable moments begin to proliferate--until the possibility of having an experience becomes a demand for one. Experience turns into something to seek, curate, even consume. Yet its power lies in its particulars: the convergence of history, art, memory, and self. At once personal and tender, challenging and vulnerable, Experience fuses philosophical argument with intimate recollection. The result is both a sweeping intellectual history and a deeply human reckoning with the experiences that shape and unsettle modern life.
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/27/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780520434387
About the Author
Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of sixteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, The Hum of the World, Experiencing Sound, and Music and the Forms of Life. He is also an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe.
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