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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> While we might agree with the sentiments of Diderot we usually think of touch in more prosaic terms. A hand brushing or stroking a piece of exposed skin perhaps. The immediacy of cutaneous contact with the skin surface. But if we scratch that surface if we dig deeper into the physiology psychology and the fleshy philosophy of the body the manifold meanings of touch start to reveal themselves. Sight sound and the body in general have been studied extensively in the humanities the social sciences and the natural sciences. But within an academic climate that celebrates visual cultures and the popular media’s infatuation with visuality touch remains largely neglected forgotten. Looking at the cultural historical and philosophical treatment of touch we can see why. We have an enduring cultural assumption present in Plato and compounded in the Enlightenment of the primacy of vision. (LL)