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

Author/creator Schleifer, Ronald
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Descriptionpages cm
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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 the aesthetics of worldliness -- 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 : Samuel Beckett and performed bewilderment -- Interchapter : cataloguing the interested arts -- Haptic storytelling, haptic desire : the mosaic art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2026007922
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