The senses of touch : haptics, affects, and technologies /
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| Author / Creator: | Paterson, Mark, 1972- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Berg, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11228468 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845204785 1845204786 9781845204792 1845204794 9781847883445 1847883443 9781474215831 1474215831 9780857850829 0857850822 |