The Inner Touch Archaeology of a Sensation

Name: The Inner Touch
Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen

Auteur: Daniel Heller-Roazen

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Daniel Heller-Roazen Daniel Heller-Roazen

Engels
Hardcover
9781890951764
22 juni 2007
392 pagina's

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An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into what it means to feel alive. The Inner Touch presents the archaeology of a single sense: the sense of being sentient. Aristotle was perhaps the first to define this faculty when in his treatise On the Soul he identified a sensory power, irreducible to the five senses, by which animals perceive that they are perceiving: the simple sense, as he wrote, that we are seeing and hearing. After him, thinkers returned, time and again, to define and redefine this curious sensation. The classical Greek and Roman philosophers as well as the medieval Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin thinkers who followed them all investigated a power they called the common sense, which one ancient author likened to a kind of inner touch, by which we are able to grasp ourselves. Their many findings were not lost with the waning of the Middle Ages. From Montaigne and Francis Bacon to Locke, Leibniz, and Rousseau, from nineteenth-century psychiatry and neurology to Proust and Walter Benjamin, the writers and thinkers of the modern period have turned knowingly and unknowing to the terms of older traditions in exploring the perception that every sensitive being possesses of its life. The Inner Touch reconstructs and reconsiders the history of this perception. In twenty-five concise chapters that move freely among ancient, medieval, and modern cultures, Daniel Heller-Roazen investigates a set of exemplary phenomena that have played central roles in philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts of the nature of animal existence. Here sensation and self-sensation, sleeping and waking, aesthetics and anesthetics, perception and apperception, animal nature and human nature, consciousness and unconsciousness, all acquire a new meaning. The Inner Touch proposes an original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into a problem that has never been more pressing: what it means to feel that one is alive.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 22 juni 2007
Aantal pagina's: 392
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Tweede Auteur: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Hoofduitgeverij: Zone Books

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Editie: illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 0.73 kg

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EAN: 9781890951764

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Categorieën: Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

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