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Things - In Touch with the Past (Paperback)
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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.
Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such
encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal touch.
Carolyn Korsmeyer begins her account with the claim that wonder or
marvel at old things fits within an "experiential" account of the
aesthetic. She then presents her main argument regarding the role
of touch-both when literal contact is made and when proximity
suffices, for touch is a fundamental sense that registers bodily
position and location. Correct understanding of the identity of
objects is presumed when one values things just because of what
they are, and with discovery that a mistake has been made,
admiration is often withdrawn. Far from undermining the importance
of the genuine, these errors of identification confirm it. Carolyn
Korsmeyer elaborates this position with a comparison between
valuing artifacts and valuing persons. She also considers the
ethical issues of genuineness, for artifacts can be harmed in
various ways ranging from vandalism to botched restoration. She
examines the differences between a real thing and a replica in
detail, making it clear that genuineness comes in degrees. Her
final chapter reviews the ontology that best suits an account of
persistence over time of things that are valued for being the real
thing.
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