Whilst Benjamin is not interested in returning to the pre-critical project of a rationalist deduction of experience, nor to a directly religious conception of the world, he is interested in how the scientific concept of experience that Kant is utilising distorts the structure of Kant's philosophical system, and how this might be corrected with the use of theological concepts.
It's part of a subtle redefining of the concept of "experience" – from a thing you live, to a thing you merely digitally witness.
The problem: to dialectically redeem the concept of experience [Erfahrung] by finding an appropriate way of experiencing the crisis of experience itself.
This paper establishes a link between UX research and Affordance theory and postulates the concept of Experience Affordances.
On the other hand, the only alternative Cassirer considered is a variety of phenomenalistic empiricism founded on "the sensualistic concept of experience".
Feminist pragmatists have relied on John Dewey's concept of experience as philosophical support for a position that holds together the subject and object in a nondualistic epistemology.
In contrast, the pre-Enlightenment concept of experience invested the world with a deeper and more profound significance, because the Creation assumes a revelatory religious importance.
It is important to realize, however, that pragmatists understand the concept of experience as "double-barrelled," in James's words (James quoted in Dewey 2000, 463).
The first one is the traditional experience economy being increasingly replaced by the concept of experience co-creation, meaning that consumers are becoming more active in co-creating their experiences.
Of Benjamin's earliest published writing his attempt in the essay entitled 'Experience'Erfahrungung', 1913/1914) to distinguish an alternative and superior concept of experience provides a useful introduction to a central and enduring preoccupation of his thought.
