The Senses of Touch : Haptics, Affects and Technologies
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Description
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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 214 pages
- 156 x 234 x 15.24mm | 322g
- 10 Dec 2007
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Berg Publishers
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- English
- 1845204794
- 9781845204792
- 535,500
Table of contents
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
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Review Text
"A thought provoking book on the whole, The Senses of Touch will be of use to those with an interset in bodies, senses, and haptics (in the broad sense used by Paterson), and would be most accessible to a postgraduate audience onwards. - Senses & Society"
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Review quote
A thought provoking book on the whole, The Senses of Touch will be of use to those with an interset in bodies, senses, and haptics (in the broad sense used by Paterson), and would be most accessible to a postgraduate audience onwards. - Senses & Society
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About Mark Paterson
Mark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
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