Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty

by Erin Manning

Book Overview

Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch explores the ways in which sensing bodies continually run up against existing political structures. In this groundbreaking work, Erin Manning reconsiders how new politics can arise that challenge the national body politic.

In Politics of Touch,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081664845X
• ISBN13: 9780816648450
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"