Alone with others : an essay on tact in five Modernist encounters / Katja Haustein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haustein, Katja, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tact.

Tact--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Times of crisis expose how we experience social, physical, and emotional forms of distance. Alone with Others explores how these experiences overlap, shaping our coexistence. Departing from conventional debates that associate intimacy with affection and distance with alienation, Haustein introduces tact as a particular mode of feeling one's way and making space in the sphere of human interaction. Reconstructing tact's conceptual history from the late eighteenth century to the present, she then focuses on three specific periods of socio-political upheaval: the two World Wars, and 1968. In five reading encounters with Marcel Proust, Helmuth Plessner, Theodor Adorno, François Truffaut, and Roland Barthes, Haustein invites us to reconsider our own ways of engaging with other people, images, and texts, and to gauge the significance of tact today. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Tact's history

Proxemics (Proust)

Alienation (Plessner-Adorno)

Individuation (Truffaut)

Approchement (Barthes).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

100936328X

9781009363280

OCLC:

1371138346