Compare and contrast experience versus context?

Question

Compare and contrast experience versus context?

Answer 1

Here's a bit of a  hermeneutic jobby-job on your question as my answer....    

I'm not quite sure what it is you are asking.  Are you asking IF comparisons and contrasts are analogous to experience and context? Or, are you asking me to compare and contrast experience and context?

My experience of your question remains without vital context, on one hand, if indeed the purpose is to clearly articulate your question so that you might receive an equally clear answer.  Yet, on the other hand, your question is already contextualized all too well by the question mark and my overall past expectations of Yahoo! Answers, (i.e. contexts-lived-through-yet-past).  

Every question on Answers carries with it a context of "this-is-something-I'd-like-to-know-your thoughts-on."  As such, the experience is "front loaded" to some extent.  Walker Percy would say such an experience robs one's "sovereignty of experience."  The whole experience is front loaded by the expectation that "an answer" is sought after, that is, until some element of the question disrupts the context and, hence, shifts the experience away from the "answering mode" to the "confused-I-need-to-figure-it-out-mode," of which your question seems to be an ample representation (at least, for me).  

In short, experience simply is what it is whereas context is the inseparable quality of experience that situates or opens as a "mode" or flavor within experience.

Answer 2

Context is the prerequisite for experience.

Answer 3

Context is a fixed framework that is independent of an acting subject. A synonym for context is situation. We could call it the material arrangment of the world in which an individual (or subject) enters.

In contrast, experience presupposes and acting subject or individual. A person has experience WITHIN a context. Where the context is set and stable (in modernist ontology), the experience is dynamic and fluid (i.e., it has a historical and temporal element).

In this way, we could simply say that context is non-changing and experience is change. If you have an experience (like going on a roller coaster for the first time), you have a change of state--that is, you WERE a person who "never rode a coaster" but THEN you were a person who "has ridden a coaster." So, experience is dependent on a change, but context is usually understood without any change as a framework where action and experience occur.