Touch

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pavoni, Andrea., Editor.

Contributor:

Nirta, Caterina, editor.

Series:

Law and the Senses ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296)

Place of Publication:

London University of Westminster Press 2020

Language Note:

English.

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 being.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781912656356

1912656353

9781912656349

1912656345