Sensorium: Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures

by David Howes

Do the senses have a history? How many might there be? Are the senses so many independent channels, or do they interact with and modulate each other? If so, how might we cultivate the capacity to see feelingly or hear colours? What makes smell 'the affective sense'? These are among the questions to be addressed in this Element. It pries the senses and perception loose from the psychology laboratory to focus on how they have been constructed and lived...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009517228
• ISBN13: 9781009517225
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"