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Description
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.
This book offers a systematic alternative to the Romantic notion that the arts are “disinterested.” It does so by focusing on subjects as diverse as Helen Keller, the evolutionary history of the human hand, practical “haptic” endeavors (including tool-making, which extends and strengthens reach), and art-forms such as ballet, caricature, poetry, fiction, opera, and storytelling. Rather than situating art beyond everyday cares and pursuits , it frames the haptic arts as tools that extend and strengthen our reach into the world.
Table of Contents
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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Product details
| Published | 16 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350589483 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 6 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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