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Odyssey Experience Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys

Smelser, Neil J.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520258976
Publisert
2009-03-05
Utgiver
University of California Press; University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Smelser, Neil J.

Om bidragsyterne

Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis, Problematics of Sociology, and Social Paralysis and Social Change, all from UC Press.

Odyssey Experience Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys

Smelser, Neil J.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Smelser, Neil J.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
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"This book displays the integrative capacity and the sweeping vista resulting from a mature scholar's lifetime of learning." Journal American Academy Of Religion/ Jaar

This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. "The Odyssey Experience" thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.
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Traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on a range of examples, this book focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity.
Les mer
“The Odyssey Experience puts forward the view that a journey, as encapsulated by the journey of Odysseus, provides a fundamental and archetypal human experience and develops a theory of this experience through personal experiences and a wide range of salient phenomena. There is a vast literature inspired by The Odyssey, but the way that Smelser approaches the subject is entirely unique.”—Yiannis Gabriel, University of London

“Smelser draws together studies of an astonishing range of diverse topics and subsumes them under a single coherent, powerful, overarching concept—the odyssey experience. I believe his book will lead to the establishment of an entirely new field of study in the social and behavioral sciences, that will open up new and promising lines of theory and research that until now have not been possible.”—Robert Scott, Associate Director (emeritus), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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"This book displays the integrative capacity and the sweeping vista resulting from a mature scholar's lifetime of learning." Journal American Academy Of Religion/ Jaar

This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. "The Odyssey Experience" thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.
Les mer
Traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on a range of examples, this book focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity.
Les mer
“The Odyssey Experience puts forward the view that a journey, as encapsulated by the journey of Odysseus, provides a fundamental and archetypal human experience and develops a theory of this experience through personal experiences and a wide range of salient phenomena. There is a vast literature inspired by The Odyssey, but the way that Smelser approaches the subject is entirely unique.”—Yiannis Gabriel, University of London

“Smelser draws together studies of an astonishing range of diverse topics and subsumes them under a single coherent, powerful, overarching concept—the odyssey experience. I believe his book will lead to the establishment of an entirely new field of study in the social and behavioral sciences, that will open up new and promising lines of theory and research that until now have not been possible.”—Robert Scott, Associate Director (emeritus), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520258976
Publisert
2009-03-05
Utgiver
University of California Press; University of California Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Smelser, Neil J.

Om bidragsyterne

Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis, Problematics of Sociology, and Social Paralysis and Social Change, all from UC Press.

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