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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
OUR PRICE: $66.62  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2014
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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
 
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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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