The first communication between human beings, the one between the
newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first
way of relating to each other has barely been considered by
our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the
detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means
experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch,
we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our
bodies. Then we remain immersed in a natural or a cultural
universe, incapable of reaching our own individuation and of
knowing our fundamental difference from the other(s).
Desire, in particular sexuate desire, is a call for touching one
another anew. But this touch requires us to have gained our
autonomy and to be able to open up to and commune with the
other as transcendent to ourselves while staying in
ourselves. This book unveils and explores how touch can act as a
basic living mediation in love and, more generally, in our
comprehensive individual and collective human becoming. It also
considers how touch can contribute to founding a culture
respectful of difference instead of subjecting them to an ideal of
sameness. We need touch as mediation to fulfil our humanity and to
build a truly human thinking and world.Â
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Luce Irigaray
|
Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Edition: |
2023 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-137412-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-03-137412-6 |
Barcode: |
9783031374128 |
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