Kearney Touch

Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55317-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: No Limits

Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kearney, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Are We Losing Our Senses?
1. Coming to Our Senses: Tact, Savvy, Flair, Insight, Sound
2. Philosophies of Touch: From Aristotle to Phenomenology
3. Tales of the Wounded Healer
4. Healing Touch: Therapies of Trauma and Recovery
5. Reclaiming Touch in the Age of Excarnation
Coda: Touch and the Coronavirus
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is founding director of the Guestbook Project, an international nonprofit for the promotion of narrative peace pedagogy. His previous Columbia University Press books include Anatheism: Returning to God After God (2009) and Reimagining the Sacred (2016), and he is also a novelist and poet.