Empathy, Contagion and Affect

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction
4. Touching and Being Touched 3
5. I. Touch
6. Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr 13
7. Figure, Plasticity, Affect 23
8. Just Like That 35
9. Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER 63
10. Cold Burn (Teion Yakedo) 83
11. The Fault Lines of Touching 105
12. II. Kinesthesia
13. On ‘Inner Touch’ and the Moving Body 115
14. Choreographies With and Without a Choreographer 133
15. “Listening” 163
16. Do You Feel the Same Way Too? 181
17. Empathy, Contagion and Affect 211
18. III. Empathy
19. Affective Modulations in Politics, Theory and Art 235
20. Is the Movement of the Filmic Image a Sign of Vitality? 249
21. Feeling In and Out 263
22. “Touch Me If You Can” 275
23. Lost and Found in Interpretation 293
24. Dancing Tango 309
25. Notes on Contributors 319