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The University of Chicago Press The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch
Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress when we're born to the gentle lowering of our eyelids after death. The Forgotten Sense gives touch its due, addressing it in multifarious ways through a series of six essays. Literary in feel, ambitious in conception, admirable in their range of reference and insight, these meditations address questions fundamental to the understanding of touch: What do we mean when we say that an artwork touches us? How does language affect our understanding of touch? Is the skin the deepest part of the human body? Can we philosophize about a kiss? To aid him in answering these questions, Pablo Maurette recruits an impressive roster of cultural figures from throughout history: Homer, Lucretius, Chretien de Troyes, Melville, Sir Thomas Browne, Knausgaard, Michel Henry and many others help him unfurl the underestimated importance of the sense of touch and tactile experience. ?The resulting book is essay writing at its best--exploratory, surprising, dazzling, a reading experience like no other. You will come away from it with a new appreciation of touch, and a new way of understanding our interactions with the world around us.
£25.16
Por qu nos creemos los cuentos Cmo se construye evidencia en la ficcin Urgentes
No existen los personajes de las novelas que nos apasionan? No son verdaderas las figuras del cuadro que nos absorbe o las escenas de la película que nos aterroriza? Por qué nos emocionan así entonces? Por qué nos las creemos tanto como para sollozar o reír a carcajadas? Actualizando un tema clásico del pensamiento occidental, la pregunta por el estatuto de realidad que corresponde a las creaciones artísticas, Pablo Maurette (autor de 'El sentido olvidado: ensayos sobre el tacto', Mar Dulce editora, 2015) compone aquí un ensayo brillante, preciso y delicioso. Armado con el concepto grecolatino de evidencia, Maurette recorre hitos artísticos y filosóficos de toda nuestra tradición (de Platón a Susan Sontag, pasando por Giotto o Proust), deteniéndose especialmente en un cuento de Julio Cortázar y en una película de Quentin Tarantino, para desnudar como nunca las herramientas y estrategias clave de esa mágica fábrica de verdad que son nuestras ficciones.
£14.96
The University of Chicago Press The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch
Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable--and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's caress when we're born to the gentle lowering of our eyelids after death. The Forgotten Sense gives touch its due, addressing it in multifarious ways through a series of six essays. Literary in feel, ambitious in conception, admirable in their range of reference and insight, these meditations address questions fundamental to the understanding of touch: What do we mean when we say that an artwork touches us? How does language affect our understanding of touch? Is the skin the deepest part of the human body? Can we philosophize about a kiss? To aid him in answering these questions, Pablo Maurette recruits an impressive roster of cultural figures from throughout history: Homer, Lucretius, Chretien de Troyes, Melville, Sir Thomas Browne, Knausgaard, Michel Henry and many others help him unfurl the underestimated importance of the sense of touch and tactile experience. ?The resulting book is essay writing at its best--exploratory, surprising, dazzling, a reading experience like no other. You will come away from it with a new appreciation of touch, and a new way of understanding our interactions with the world around us.
£80.00
