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Experience: A History

By Lawrence Kramer
Hardcover
$29.95
By Lawrence Kramer
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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 Frui...

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