In this new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we
can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our …

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable—and the most neglected in Western culture, all
but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us …

Most philosophical discussions of perception concentrate on vision. There is also a
tendency in some areas of philosophy to think of our more general perceptual and cognitive …

The senses are often talked of as bodily senses. Although more recently there has been
valuable work on the cross-over of the senses, it is still common for our understanding of the …

The pleasures of being alive and our deepest sense of wellbeing depend on cutaneous
rewards that may come anytime, anywhere. Modern society and scholars alike tend to …

Even within what has been loosely characterized as a “return to the senses” in the social
sciences, cultural history, and social theory, the place of touch is problematic. Touch is …

Entering into presence with an other is generally submitted to the rules of a world that is
presumed to be neutral with respect to each one and to which each one must conform …

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past
and that can be said to" embody" their histories. Such genuine or" real" things afford a …

Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of
Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied …

This paper explores the phenomenology of touch and proposes that the structure of touch
serves to cast light on the more general way in which we 'find ourselves in a world'. Recent …