The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies

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Routledge, 07/06/2020 - 214 páginas
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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Acknowledgements
1919
Glossary
1920
The Primacy of Touch
1921
a Felt Phenomenology
1935
Seeing with the Hands Touching with the Eyes
1955
Geometry with Eyes and Hands
1975
Haptic Aesthetics
1993
Tangible Play Prosthetic Performance
1963
the Technologies of Touch
1986
Flesh and FeelingWith
2002
Notes
References
Index
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Mark Paterson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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