Abstract

The text analyses the book by Andrea Tagliapietra, Philosophy of experience. As it also emerges from the book of Tagliapietra, the question of experience is revealed as one of the most relevant and complex ones for the philosophical investigation. The appearance of new technologies changed the traditional field of experience, leading to a crisis of the modes of transmission of knowledge that had been maintained until the nineteenth century. In spite of this crisis it is necessary to go back to the meaning of ‘putting to the test’ and ‘crossing of a stranger’ that are inherent in the very meaning of the term experience.