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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Experience, Practical Reasoning, and Wisdom
Part 1: Touch; or, Introduction to the Haptic Arts
1. The Engagements, Knowledge, and Feelings of the Haptic Arts
2. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Haptic Arts
3. Haptic Worldliness: The Evolutionary History and Semiotics of the Human Hand
Part 2: Our Place in the World; or, Reciprocity, Embeddedness, Transformation
4. The Haptic Art of Medicine: Inferential Comprehensions and The Aesthetics of Worldliness
5. The Haptic Art of Nation-ness: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, and Irish Caricature
6. Mimesis as a Haptic Art: Translations of Language, Translations of Culture
Part 3: Haptic Art; or, Bewilderment, Rumination, Happiness
7. Haptic Gestures of Music and Theater: Samuel Beckett and Performed Bewilderment
8. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Interested Arts
9. Haptic Storytelling, Haptic Desire: The Mosaic Art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen
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