Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

With wonderful dexterity and warm companionship, The Haptic Arts leads us out of an isolated and goal-driven approach to comprehension and back into the authentic experience of being embedded in a fulfilling world of reciprocity and transformation. The work’s advocacy of touch, as a moment and an approach that entails engagement, embodiment and realisation, draws together an absorbing array of examples from art, literature, memoirs, political theory, science and translation; while the caring craft of successive chapters genially performs its own espoused practice of ruminative enrichment and widening understanding. Convincingly demonstrating how even the most austere conceptualization can be underpinned and nurtured by gestural meaning, and in a time of increasing digitalisation of our worldliness, Ronald Schleifer enjoins us here to connect with a more ecumenical vision in which our whole being can celebrate its situatedness and embrace a worldly wisdom.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Experience, Practical Reasoning, and Wisdom Part 1: Touch; or, Introduction to the Haptic Arts 1. The Engagements, Knowledge, and Feelings of the Haptic Arts 2. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Haptic Arts 3. Haptic Worldliness: The Evolutionary History and Semiotics of the Human Hand Part 2: Our Place in the World; or, Reciprocity, Embeddedness, Transformation 4. The Haptic Art of Medicine: Inferential Comprehensions and The Aesthetics of Worldliness 5. The Haptic Art of Nation-ness: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, and Irish Caricature6. Mimesis as a Haptic Art: Translations of Language, Translations of Culture Part 3: Haptic Art; or, Bewilderment, Rumination, Happiness 7. Haptic Gestures of Music and Theater: Samuel Beckett and Performed Bewilderment8. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Interested Arts 9. Haptic Storytelling, Haptic Desire: The Mosaic Art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen References

Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

With wonderful dexterity and warm companionship, The Haptic Arts leads us out of an isolated and goal-driven approach to comprehension and back into the authentic experience of being embedded in a fulfilling world of reciprocity and transformation. The work’s advocacy of touch, as a moment and an approach that entails engagement, embodiment and realisation, draws together an absorbing array of examples from art, literature, memoirs, political theory, science and translation; while the caring craft of successive chapters genially performs its own espoused practice of ruminative enrichment and widening understanding. Convincingly demonstrating how even the most austere conceptualization can be underpinned and nurtured by gestural meaning, and in a time of increasing digitalisation of our worldliness, Ronald Schleifer enjoins us here to connect with a more ecumenical vision in which our whole being can celebrate its situatedness and embrace a worldly wisdom.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Experience, Practical Reasoning, and Wisdom Part 1: Touch; or, Introduction to the Haptic Arts 1. The Engagements, Knowledge, and Feelings of the Haptic Arts 2. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Haptic Arts 3. Haptic Worldliness: The Evolutionary History and Semiotics of the Human Hand Part 2: Our Place in the World; or, Reciprocity, Embeddedness, Transformation 4. The Haptic Art of Medicine: Inferential Comprehensions and The Aesthetics of Worldliness 5. The Haptic Art of Nation-ness: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, and Irish Caricature6. Mimesis as a Haptic Art: Translations of Language, Translations of Culture Part 3: Haptic Art; or, Bewilderment, Rumination, Happiness 7. Haptic Gestures of Music and Theater: Samuel Beckett and Performed Bewilderment8. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Interested Arts 9. Haptic Storytelling, Haptic Desire: The Mosaic Art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen References

Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

With wonderful dexterity and warm companionship, The Haptic Arts leads us out of an isolated and goal-driven approach to comprehension and back into the authentic experience of being embedded in a fulfilling world of reciprocity and transformation. The work’s advocacy of touch, as a moment and an approach that entails engagement, embodiment and realisation, draws together an absorbing array of examples from art, literature, memoirs, political theory, science and translation; while the caring craft of successive chapters genially performs its own espoused practice of ruminative enrichment and widening understanding. Convincingly demonstrating how even the most austere conceptualization can be underpinned and nurtured by gestural meaning, and in a time of increasing digitalisation of our worldliness, Ronald Schleifer enjoins us here to connect with a more ecumenical vision in which our whole being can celebrate its situatedness and embrace a worldly wisdom.

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Experience, Practical Reasoning, and Wisdom Part 1: Touch; or, Introduction to the Haptic Arts 1. The Engagements, Knowledge, and Feelings of the Haptic Arts 2. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Haptic Arts 3. Haptic Worldliness: The Evolutionary History and Semiotics of the Human Hand Part 2: Our Place in the World; or, Reciprocity, Embeddedness, Transformation 4. The Haptic Art of Medicine: Inferential Comprehensions and The Aesthetics of Worldliness 5. The Haptic Art of Nation-ness: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, and Irish Caricature6. Mimesis as a Haptic Art: Translations of Language, Translations of Culture Part 3: Haptic Art; or, Bewilderment, Rumination, Happiness 7. Haptic Gestures of Music and Theater: Samuel Beckett and Performed Bewilderment8. Interchapter: Cataloguing the Interested Arts 9. Haptic Storytelling, Haptic Desire: The Mosaic Art of Don Giovanni and Isak Dinesen References