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Touch
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
Author / Editor information
Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is founding director of the Guestbook Project, an international nonprofit for the promotion of narrative peace pedagogy. His previous Columbia University Press books include Anatheism: Returning to God After God (2009) and Reimagining the Sacred (2016), and he is also a novelist and poet.
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Fanny Howe, author of Second Childhood and winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
Which came first? The spirit seeking a touch? Or the touch seeking a further touch? A confirmation of life out of touch, a phone that a hand cannot reach or touch? Sometimes it seems that the senses were created out of a lonely and desiring spirit. Especially touch. In this openhearted study of that sense, Richard Kearney leads the reader masterfully through thinkers of the past and the present who have wondered deeply, had ideas, and made gestures in response to the mystery of 'feeling things.'
Which came first? The spirit seeking a touch? Or the touch seeking a further touch? A confirmation of life out of touch, a phone that a hand cannot reach or touch? Sometimes it seems that the senses were created out of a lonely and desiring spirit. Especially touch. In this openhearted study of that sense, Richard Kearney leads the reader masterfully through thinkers of the past and the present who have wondered deeply, had ideas, and made gestures in response to the mystery of 'feeling things.'
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound
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2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology
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3. Tales of the Wounded Healer
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4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery
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5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation
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Coda: Touch and the Coronavirus
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Notes
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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February 25, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780231553179
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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20 b&w illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9780231553179
Keywords for this book
philosophy of touch; history of touch; the senses; social media; social interaction
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
