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Sight, touch, and imagination in Byzantium / Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betancourt, Roland, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perception (Philosophy)--History.
- Perception (Philosophy).
- History.
- Touch--Byzantine Empire.
- Touch.
- Visual perception.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Byzantine Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 401 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Canʹt touch this
- Part I: How sight is not touch. The medium of sight ; The problem of tactility ; The commonalities of the senses
- Part II: Photios and the unfolding of perception. "Has the mind seen?" The language of effluxes ; "Has it grasped?" Apprehending the object ; "Has it visualized?" I: The grasp of the imagination ; "Has it visualized?" II: The problem of fantasy ; Then it has effortlessly". Judgment and assent ; Conclusion to Part II
- Part III: Mediation, veneration, remediation. Medium and mediation ; Tactility and veneration ; Synesthesia and remediation
- Conclusion: Tempted to touch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-385) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781108344067
- 1108344062
- Publisher Number:
- 99988130899
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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