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Surrender and Catch

Experience and Inquiry Today

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  1. Kurt H. Wolff

    1. Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 51)

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Surrender

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. There Is a Beginning

      1. There is a Beginning
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 3-6

    3. An Introduction to Surrender-and-Catch

      1. Surrender and Catch
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 9-17
      2. Too Literal, not Literal Enough
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 18-19
      4. Chapter 5
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 28-29
      5. Surrender as a Response to our Crisis
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 30-35
      6. Chapter 7
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 36-36
      7. Surrender and Religion
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 37-42
      8. Chapter 9
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 43-44
      9. (This Book)
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 45-45

    4. Surrenders-To

      1. Surrender and Rebellion
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 49-69
      2. Chapter 12
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 70-70
      4. Chapter 14
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 94-95
      5. Surrender and Aesthetic Experience
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 96-108
      6. Chapter 16
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 109-109

    5. From Surrender-To to Surrender

      1. Prefatory Note
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 113-114
      2. Beginning: In Hegel and Today
        • Kurt H. Wolff
        Pages 115-138
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About this book

Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience. This is scarcely new on the American scene, and it is ancient knowledge, East and West. The fears of total surrender, the fears of self-revelation and of total abandon, although genuine, are likewise not new. Yet Kurt H. Wolff does attempt something new here, an epistemologi­ cal essay with the help of this old idea: his subtitle is 'experience and inquiry today'. He tries to formulate an integrated view which incorporates in the theory of total experience not only the accepted component- esthetics, religion, the recent American experience - but also a metaphysics, a phenomenology, a theory of perception, a social philosophy and a methodology of the social sciences, even a philosophy of history and psychopathology. Phenomenology (especially Alfred Schutz), the critical Frankfurt school (especially Adorno and Marcuse), sociology (especially Georg Simmel), and existentialism (especially Camus) are tied in together. It all looks topsy-turvy at first. We have here scraps of a diary, fragments of correspondence, a stray adolescent love letter, notes on notes on field work, and notes and comments on tutorial seminars plus long excerpts from students' essays, a stray paper in a learned journal summarizing the core of the book, comments piled on comments and a web of self-references, literary criticisms, and pieces of poetry, plus a rich scholarly apparatus.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

    Kurt H. Wolff

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Surrender and Catch

  • Book Subtitle: Experience and Inquiry Today

  • Authors: Kurt H. Wolff

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1526-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0765-9Published: 30 September 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1526-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 422

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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