Touch of Doubt - On Haptic Scepticism

On Haptic Scepticism

Bibliographic Data

ID6580241
AuthorsRachel Anna Aumiller
EditorsRachel Aumiller
Year2021
Pages200
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTouch of Doubt - On Haptic Scepticism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110627176
OpenAlexW3208238445
Open LibraryOL29430237M, OL30156845M
ISBN9783110623956, 9783110627176
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical scepticism as well as for scepticism as an embodied form of subversive political, religious, and artistic practice. Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge of ourselves and the world. It questions 1) what we can know through touch, 2) what we can know about touch itself, and 3) how our experience of touching the other and ourselves throws us into a state of doubt. This volume is intended for students and scholars who wish to reconsider the experience of touching in intersections of philosophy, religion, art, and social and political practice

Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · History of Science and Medicine · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · History · Jews · Judaism · Philosophy · Philosophy and religion · Skepticism · Touch

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