A Touch of Doubt : : On Haptic Scepticism.
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 philosophi...
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| Superior document: | Studies and Texts in Scepticism Ser. ; v.9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies and Texts in Scepticism Ser.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Sensation & Hesitation: Haptic Scepticism as an Ethics of Touching
- "Es wird Leib, es empfindet": Auto-Affection, Doubt, and the Philosopher's Hands
- When to Touch and What to Doubt: Zeroing In on the Tactile Surplus
- The (Un)Touchable Touch of Pyramus and Thisbe: Doubt and Desire
- A Magic Touch: Performative Haptic Acts in Biblical and Medieval Jewish Magic
- Noli me tangere: The Profaning Touch That Challenges Authority
- Touching Doubt: Haptolinguistic Scepticism
- An Atom of Touch: Scepticism from Hegel to Lacan
- The Weak Relations of Touch and Sight through the Passage of Lapsed Time
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Index