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Touch

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Law and the SensesPublisher: London : University of Westminster Press, 2020Description: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781912656349
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: 1912656361 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 344.095 23
LOC classification:
  • K487.T43
Online resources: Summary: Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses. This volume in the Law and the Senses series attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social science disciplines alongside artist presentations explore touch’s boundaries and formal and informal ‘laws’ of the senses. Each contribution unveils a multi-faceted new dimension to the force of touch, its ability to form, deform and reform what it touches. In unique ways, each of the several contributions to this volume recognises the trans-corporeality of touch to traverse the boundaries on the body and entangle other bodies and spaces, thus challenging the very notion of corporeal integrity and human beingPPN: PPN: 1778469248Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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