A Touch of Doubt

On Haptic Scepticism
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-062395-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Studies and Texts in Scepticism

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical scepticism as well as for scepticism as an embodied form of subversive political, religious, and artistic practice. Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge of ourselves and the world. It questions 1) what we can know through touch, 2) what we can know about touch itself, and 3) how our experience of touching the other and ourselves throws us into a state of doubt. This volume is intended for students and scholars who wish to reconsider the experience of touching in intersections of philosophy, religion, art, and social and political practice.

Zielgruppe

scholars and students of continental philosophy of psychoanalysis

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aumiller, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Aumiller, Universität Hamburg.

Rachel Aumiller, Hamburg University, Germany.