book: A Touch of Doubt
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A Touch of Doubt

On Haptic Scepticism
  • Herausgegeben von: Rachel Aumiller
  • Gefördert durch: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2021
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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.

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Rachel Aumiller, Universität Hamburg.

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eBook veröffentlicht am:
22. Februar 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110627176
Gebunden veröffentlicht am:
22. Februar 2021
Gebunden ISBN:
9783110623956
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Frontmatter:
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Inhalt:
220
Abbildungen:
7
Farbige Abbildungen:
13
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