A History of the Senses – From Antiquity to Cyberspace

List of Illustrations.
<p>Tuning Up Conspicuous Manifestations – (Un–)Timely Reflections.</p>
<p>Part I Senses and Historicity.</p>
<p>1. Approaching the Superhistorical.</p>
<p>Part II The Traditional Order of the Sense: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era.</p>
<p>2.Conceptions: The Sensorium.</p>
<p>3.Classifications: The Hierarchy of the Senses.</p>
<p>4. Representations: Allegories.</p>
<p>5. Practices: The Senses and their Ailments.</p>
<p>Part III From the World of the Senses to the World of Reason.</p>
<p>(Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries).</p>
<p>6. Philosophical Sensualism in the Age of Sensibility.</p>
<p>7.The Senses and Aesthetics.</p>
<p>8. The Education of the Senses.</p>
<p>9. The Transformation of the Senses by Industrialization and Technology.</p>
<p>10. Experimental Physiology and the Separation of the Senses.</p>
<p>Part IV The ′Rediscovery′ of the Senses in the Twentieth Century.</p>
<p>11. Touching – or The New Pleasure in the Body.</p>
<p>12. Tasting – or What do Fast Food and Nouvelle Cuisine Share in Common?.</p>
<p>13. Scenting – or From Deodorization to Reodorization.</p>
<p>14. Listening Effects – or The Art and Power of Noise.</p>
<p>15. Ways of Seeing –or The Human Rights of the Eye.</p>
<p>16. Psi–Phenomena – or The Exploration of Extra–Sensory Perception.</p>
<p>Outlook.</p>
<p>17. Cyberspace and the Future of the Senses.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>Index</p>