Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense

Richard Kearney

Published by Columbia University Press 2021

Touch

Recovering Our Most Vital Sense

Richard Kearney

In the series No Limits

https://doi.org/10.7312/kear19952

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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.

Reviews

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.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Are We Losing Our Senses? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Tales of the Wounded Healer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Coda: Touch and the Coronavirus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 20 b&w illustrations
Keywords: philosophy of touch; history of touch; the senses; social media; social interaction

eBook

Published: February 25, 2021
ISBN: 9780231553179