Main entry:

Heller-Roazen, Daniel. author.

Title & Author:

The inner touch : archaeology of a sensation / Daniel Heller-Roazen.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2007.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by the MIT Press
©2007

Description:

386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-371) and index.
Murriana -- The aesthetic animal -- The primary power -- The circle and the point -- Sentio Ergo Sum -- Sleep -- Awakening -- Company -- Historia animalium -- Appropriation -- Elements of ethics -- The hound and the hare -- Life science -- The unnamed king -- Psychology of the 449th night -- The fountain and the source -- Perception everywhere -- Of the merits of missiles -- Thorns -- To myself; or, the great dane -- Of flying creatures -- Coenaesthesis -- Phantoms -- The anaesthetic animal -- Untouchable.

Summary:

An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into the sense of being sentient--what it means to feel that one is alive--that draws on philosophical, literary, psychological, and medical accounts from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures.

ISBN:

1890951765 (alk. paper)
9781890951764 (alk. paper)
1890951773 (pbk.)
9781890951771 (pbk.)

Subject:

Bewusstsein Zusammenstellung
Sense (Philosophy)
Perception (Philosophy)
Senses and sensation.
Sensation
Sensibilité (Philosophie)
Perception (Philosophie)
Sens et sensations.
perception.
Wahrnehmung
Bewusstsein

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263968
Call No.: BIB 195286
Status: Available