The inner touch
Subtitle: archaeology of a sensation
By: Daniel Heller-Roazen.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781890951764; 9781890951771
Subjects: Sense (Philosophy); Perception (Philosophy); Senses and sensation
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-371) and index.