The Senses of Touch

Haptics, Affects and Technologies
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84520-479-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book 'feels' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework that traces tactility from Aristotle through the Enlightenment to the present day, the book examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies. The Senses of Touch thereby demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our 'senses' of touch.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paterson, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Primacy of Touch2. Learning How to See, Describing How to Feel: A 'Felt' Phenomenology3. The Forgetting of Touch: Geometry with Eyes and Hands4. 'How the World Touches Us': Haptic Aesthetics5. Tangible Play, Prosthetic Performance6. Feel the Presence: The Technologies of Touch7. Seeing with the Hands, Touching with the Eyes8. Affecting Touch: Flesh and Feeling-With

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Paterson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.