...This chapter explores the “scandal” of Bataille's work through an analysis of his understanding of “experience.” Bataille is scandalous for Sartre because he confuses philosophical and scientific language with that of personal experience. His texts are scandalous because of the nature...

... conceivably be done in any well-equipped lab in the world, they articulated drug discovery in South Africa as rooted in place in three ways: connected with personal experiences of disease (especially malaria and HIV); an expression of commitment to democratic citizenship; and providing the possibility...

..., people offer up reports of personal experiences from their lives or from the lives of people to whom they have a personal attachment. In this way, they convey to each other their perceptions of their community. Storytelling pervades many forms of face-to-face public talk. Storytelling, simply put...

... for understanding Bishop's ideas about art's relationship to personal experience. When Bishop speaks, in “Poem,” of “life and the memory of it so compressed / they've turned into each other,” she is identifying one solution to a problem that concerns her throughout her career, namely, the problem of narrative...

... shows cover a wide range of topics, from sexual abuse, weight loss, and interracial adoption to gay parenting, marital infidelity, and prostitution. They take the backstage of everyday life and put it up front, onstage, making public events of personal experience. And, despite the fact that talk shows...