Depth Experience and Moral-Political Reflection

How should inquiry into ethical-political life come to terms with "depth experience"? I mean by this extraordinary experience that breaks into th familiar frames of meaning and reasoning that undergird everyday life, bringing some sort of transformation of commitments or identity. I specul...

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Main Author: White, Stephen K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Illinois Press 2011
In: Process studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 348-369
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Summary:How should inquiry into ethical-political life come to terms with "depth experience"? I mean by this extraordinary experience that breaks into th familiar frames of meaning and reasoning that undergird everyday life, bringing some sort of transformation of commitments or identity. I speculate broadly about such experience, expanding the focus beyond theistic experiences, such as being "born-again. " When one does this, depth experience need not be thought, as it often is, anathema to political theory. I show rather that it can be cultivated so as to animate an admirable "bearing" on the part of citizens of affluent, latemodern societies.
ISSN:2154-3682
Contains:Enthalten in: Process studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/44798322