Philosophies of Touch: from Aristotle to Phenomenology
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This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”
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Philosophies of Touch: from Aristotle to Phenomenology
In: Research in PhenomenologySearch for other papers by Richard Kearney in
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Abstract
This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1345 | 422 | 62 |
| Full Text Views | 163 | 37 | 12 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 394 | 93 | 32 |