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Touch
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
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This book is ideal for readers interested in philosophy, psychology, and contemporary social issues, especially those seeking to understand the importance of physical and emotional connection in an increasingly digital world.
Richard 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.
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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?
Touch by 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.
Series: No Limits
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Critics praise Touch as a timely, insightful, and sophisticated meditation on human connection. Maria Pia Lara commends it for addressing isolation in a global context, while Kieran Setiya highlights its compelling evidence of touch’s therapeutic power. The book is described as profoundly illuminating by the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion and as a call to sensorial groundedness by Anne Davenport.
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ISBN: 9780231199537
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 February 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Illustration: 20 b&w illustrations
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 216
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About the Author
Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is director of the Guestbook Project for creative peace pedagogy and he has written many books on the philosophy of imagination and embodiment, translated into over a dozen languages. His previous Columbia University Press books include Anatheism: Returning to God After God (2009) and Reimagining the Sacred (2016).
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