The haptic arts how touch shapes our place in the world Ronald Schleifer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schleifer, Ronald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation.

Touch--Philosophy.

Touch.

Touch in literature.

Senses and sensation in art.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Sensation.

Medical Subjects:

Sensation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of “art” and “aesthetics” to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building, and translation while re-thinking more traditional arts of literature, music, and painting. Touch is a form of reciprocal interchange – touching always involves being touched in return. It creates a sense of embeddedness in a world that promotes a willingness to take social action, and it heightens concern with spatial perception and metamorphosis with an eye towards transforming experience itself. Focusing on subjects as diverse as Helen Keller, the evolutionary history of the human hand, and practical “haptic” endeavors such as tool-making,The Haptic Arts situates the arts and value within everyday cares and pursuits as tools that extend and strengthen our reach into the world"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Prologue : experience, practical reasoning, and wisdom

The engagements, knowledge, and feelings of the haptic arts

Interchapter : cataloguing the haptic arts

Haptic worldliness : the evolutionary history and semiotics of the human hand

The haptic art of medicine : inferential comprehensions and apprehensions of wholeness

The haptic art of nation-ness : Benedict Anderson, imagined communities, and Irish caricature

Mimesis as a haptic art : translations of language, translations of culture

Haptic gestures of music and theater : modernism, Samuel Beckett, and performed bewilderment

Interchapter : cataloguing the interested arts

Haptic storytelling, haptic desire : the mosaic art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed June 11, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Schleifer, Ronald Haptic arts

ISBN:

9781350589506

1350589500

9781350589490

1350589497

9781350589513

1350589519

OCLC:

1587075305

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license