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Touch : Recovering Our Most Vital Sense / Richard Kearney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: No LimitsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource : 20 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231553179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.182 23/ita/20220315
LOC classification:
  • BF275
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound -- 2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology -- 3. Tales of the Wounded Healer -- 4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery -- 5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation -- Coda: Touch and the Coronavirus -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How can we come back to our senses?Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. He argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch, from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies. He demonstrates that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to our fixation with control. 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231553179

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound -- 2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology -- 3. Tales of the Wounded Healer -- 4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery -- 5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation -- Coda: Touch and the Coronavirus -- Notes -- Index

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Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How can we come back to our senses?Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. He argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch, from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies. He demonstrates that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to our fixation with control. 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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