Things - In Touch With the Past

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience--an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.

List of contents

• Illustrations


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Touch and the Genuine


• Chapter 2: Tarnished Halos


• Chapter 3: Mistaken Identities


• Chapter 4: Loss and Rescue, Help and Harm


• Chapter 5: Relics, Remnants, and Scrap


• Bibliography

About the author

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Her research covers aesthetics, emotion theory, and perception, with a special interest in the senses of taste and touch. Her previous books include Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics, Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy, and Gender and Aesthetics.

Summary

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to "embody" their histories. Such genuine or "real" things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience--an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property.

Additional text

In this excellent book, Carolyn Korsmeyer skilfully threads a course through these murky waters, tacking close to, but not alighting on, Viollet-le-Duc's charge... we should rejoice in the fact that Korsmeyer has started us off with such an insightful, profound, and beautifully-writtenbook.

Product details

• Authors: Korsmeyer , Carolyn Korsmeyer, Carolyn (Research Professor of Philosop Korsmeyer, Carolyn (Research Professor of Philosophy Korsmeyer, Korsmeyer Carolyn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780197649596
• ISBN: 978-0-19-764959-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge