Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Other), Lee, Crispin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034317913 ISBN-13: 9783034317917 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2014 Click for more in this series: Modern French Identities |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
Dewey: 840.9 |
LCCN: 2014022567 |
Series: Modern French Identities |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" L (1.00 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element of our sensory presence is transmitted elsewhere. It is often claimed that this change in the way we perceive the world and each other is without precedent, and is solely the result of twenty-first-century life and technologies. This book argues otherwise. The author analyses the evolving portrayals of 'haptic' sensations - that is, sensations that are at once tactile and visual - in the theories and prose of the writer-philosophers Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) and Michel Serres (1930-). In exploring haptic perception in the works of Bataille, Blanchot and Serres, the author examines haptic theories postulated by Alo s Riegl, Laura U. Marks, Mark Paterson and Jean-Luc Nancy. |
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