The gift of touch
Subtitle: embodying the good
By: Stephen David Ross.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Body, Human (Philosophy) -- History; Body, Human -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History; Good and evil -- History
Description: The Gift of Touch is the third volume in Ross's ongoing examination of the Western philosophical tradition in ethical terms, from the standpoint of the good, giving rise to endless responsibilities, resisting the neutrality of being and truth.

The first volume, The Gift of Beauty, explored the link between art and the good in the light of Nietzsche's revaluation of all values and the second volume, The Gift of Truth, explored the ways in which truth and knowledge answer to a responsibility beyond themselves, given from the good. This third book traces Western ideas for corporeal bodies from Plato to contemporary feminist and poststructuralist writings, understanding corporeal things throughout nature as heterogeneous and expressive, interpreted in ethical terms, in relation to histories of domination and resistance. At the heart of the book is a reexamination of the good, found in Plato as that which gives authority to knowledge and truth.

The good gives being in abundance, understood in terms of endless responsibility, giving rise to an ethics of inclusion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-368) and index.