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JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY 2022, VOL. 9, NO. 1, 83–85 BOOK REVIEW Kearney, Richard. Touch: Recovering our Most Vital Sense. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 195 pages. Index. ISBN: 978-0-231-19953-7. As I sat down to sketch this review of Richard Kearney’s new book on touch, I happened to have received just then in the post a record I had ordered some time ago. It was an album by the French group Daft Punk by the very Proustian title Random Access Memories (and let us not forget that in this year we commemorate the centennial of Proust’s death who has written some memorable passages in anticipation of the discussion that Richard Kearney opens around what he rightly claims to be “our most vital sense”). As I could not resist the temptation to open the package, my eye fell on a song which happened to have the exact same title as the book I was about to review: Touch. The strange coincidence in the titles of book and song provoked in me the temptation to put Richard Kearney’s book through an unconventional challenge: to test, by comparing them, whether the book’s insights on touch were in agreement with those
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Published: Jan 2, 2022
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