To Make the Hands Impure: Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy

by Adam Zachary Newton

Book Overview

How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?

For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823263525
• ISBN13: 9780823263523
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"