Kinaesthesia and Touching Reality
This article outlines the philosophical and historical background to nineteenth-century belief that the touch sense, specifically including kinaesthesia, gives special, or uniquely deep, access to the world. The argument associates touch with life itself. Victorian writers also tied the sense of mov...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Open Library of Humanities
2014-10-01
|
| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/691 |