Martin Jay's *Songs of Experience* is a comprehensive exploration of the concept of 'experience' in European and American thought, tracing its evolution from Michel Montaigne to 20th-century French poststructuralists. The book maps the various meanings of 'experience' across different domains, including cognitive, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical experience. It also delves into the idea of fading experience and the concept of experience without a subject, as well as attempts to regain this idea. Critics have noted a quasi-Hegelian pattern and a Kantian-Weberian model of modernism divided into three basic areas of experience in Jay's work. However, the most significant criticism is the lack of consideration for phenomenology, which has developed a new anti-psychologistic and anti-positivist concept of experience. Despite this, Jay's work remains a valuable contribution to the understanding of the concept of experience.Martin Jay's *Songs of Experience* is a comprehensive exploration of the concept of 'experience' in European and American thought, tracing its evolution from Michel Montaigne to 20th-century French poststructuralists. The book maps the various meanings of 'experience' across different domains, including cognitive, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical experience. It also delves into the idea of fading experience and the concept of experience without a subject, as well as attempts to regain this idea. Critics have noted a quasi-Hegelian pattern and a Kantian-Weberian model of modernism divided into three basic areas of experience in Jay's work. However, the most significant criticism is the lack of consideration for phenomenology, which has developed a new anti-psychologistic and anti-positivist concept of experience. Despite this, Jay's work remains a valuable contribution to the understanding of the concept of experience.