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The Necessity of Experience PUB20150908 scientific and aesthetic ideas thatIn this controversial book, Edward S. Reed warns that first hand experience as a way of understanding the world and ourselves is endangered, because our culture favors indirect, second hand knowledge that is selected, modified, packaged, and presented to us by others. Reed offers a spirited defense of unmediated experience against both modernist and postmodernist critics and outlines how to foster this vision of meaningful learning. "Reed sets about