RT Book
T1 Touch
T2 Law and the senses
T2 The Westminster law & theory lab
A2 Pavoni, Andrea
A2 Nirta, Caterina
A2 Mandić, Danilo 1985-
A2 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas
LA English
PP London
PB University of Westminster Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741850932
AB Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses. This volume in the Law and the Senses series attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social science disciplines alongside artist presentations explore touch's boundaries and formal and informal 'laws' of the senses. Each contribution unveils a multi-faceted new dimension to the force of touch, its ability to form, deform and reform what it touches. In unique ways, each of the several contributions to this volume recognises the trans-corporeality of touch to traverse the boundaries on the body and entangle other bodies and spaces, thus challenging the very notion of corporeal integrity and human being
CN K487.T43
SN 9781912656356
SN 9781912656363
SN 9781912656370
K1 Law and sociobiology
K1 Senses and sensation
K1 Law : Psychological aspects
K1 Sociological jurisprudence
K1 The arts
K1 Art forms
K1 Humanities
K1 Society & social sciences
K1 Law
K1 Jurisprudence & general issues