{"product_id":"touch-9780231199537","title":"Touch","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated book that comes at a time when, as a result of a biological catastrophe that has spread across the globe, we share our sense of isolation with other humans in the global sense. So this might be the right moment to relearn how intertwined touch is with every aspect of our life, both as individuals and as one species among many. -- Maria Pia Lara * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *\u003cbr\u003eKearney presents compelling evidence for the therapeutic power of touch, from the treatment of torture victims to the physiology of childhood trauma and more quotidian effects on stress, immunity, and sleep. -- Kieran Setiya * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eKearney’s powerful meditation aims at initiating a new vital wisdom of sensorial groundedness based on tact and savvy, flair and insight. -- Anne Davenport * JMJ Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling narrative on an intimate connection between healing and touch. -- Frank Armstrong * Cassandra Voices *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating piece of work by one of the most interesting thinkers of our age. -- Simon Critchley, author of \u003ci\u003eTragedy, the Greeks, and Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich 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.' -- Fanny Howe, author of \u003ci\u003eSecond Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e and winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003eKearney is acutely aware of how our digital technologies exacerbate the drift to excarnation in modern culture. This book casts much light on how we lost sight of touch—and might regain it. -- Charles Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Kearney writes with urgency, fluency and commitment. He connects serious and complex thought to ideas on how we might live better in the world. His work arises not only from deep reading but also from a belief that just as philosophy comes from the world it has a duty to touch and transform its own source. -- Colm Tóibín, author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Are We Losing Our Senses?\u003cbr\u003e1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound\u003cbr\u003e2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology\u003cbr\u003e3. Tales of the Wounded Healer\u003cbr\u003e4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery\u003cbr\u003e5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Touch and the Coronavirus\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864262160727,"sku":"9780231199537","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231199537.jpg?v=1722271128","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/touch-9780231199537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}