A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2021

A Touch of Doubt

On Haptic Scepticism

Edited by: Rachel Aumiller
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Volume 9 in the series Studies and Texts in Scepticism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110627176

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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.

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Rachel Aumiller, Hamburg University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	1
Sensation & Hesitation: Haptic Scepticism as an Ethics of Touching Rachel Aumiller Open Access Download PDF	3
“Es wird Leib, es empfindet”: Auto-Affection, Doubt, and the Philosopher’s Hands Jacob Levi Open Access Download PDF	30
When to Touch and What to Doubt: Zeroing In on the Tactile Surplus Robert Pfaller Open Access Download PDF	58
The (Un)Touchable Touch of Pyramus and Thisbe: Doubt and Desire Bara Kolenc Open Access Download PDF	78
A Magic Touch: Performative Haptic Acts in Biblical and Medieval Jewish Magic Bill Rebiger Open Access Download PDF	104
Noli me tangere: The Profaning Touch That Challenges Authority Libera Pisano Open Access Download PDF	122
Touching Doubt: Haptolinguistic Scepticism Mirt Komel Open Access Download PDF	138
An Atom of Touch: Scepticism from Hegel to Lacan Goran Vranešević Open Access Download PDF	156
The Weak Relations of Touch and Sight through the Passage of Lapsed Time Adi Louria Hayon Open Access Download PDF	178
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	207
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	211
Index Open Access Download PDF	213

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars and students of continental philosophy of psychoanalysis, religion, art, and politics.
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 220
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 13
Keywords: Scepticism; continental philosophy; postmodern philosophy; German idealism.

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Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110627176

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110623956