The Senses of Touch

ISBN-13: 9781845204792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 214 str.

Mark Paterson

Opis

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. Not merely immediate skin sensation, touching and feeling are inextricably woven into embodied experiences that are emotional and expressive, personal and interpersonal, and mediated through technologies. Examining the role of touch in art, memory, digital design, developmental psychology, experiences of visual impairment, and tactile therapies, The Senses of Touch demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our "senses" of touch.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Mark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.