Things: In Touch with the Past

by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Book Overview

Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to embody their histories. Such genuine or real things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience--an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not
a perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197649599
• ISBN13: 9780197649596
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"