A History of the Senses: From Antiquity to Cyberspace

Tuning Up Conspicuous Manifestations - (Un-)Timely Reflections.

Part I Senses and Historicity.

1. Approaching the Superhistorical.

Part II The Traditional Order of the Sense: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era.

2.Conceptions: The Sensorium.

3.Classifications: The Hierarchy of the Senses.

4. Representations: Allegories.

5. Practices: The Senses and their Ailments.

Part III From the World of the Senses to the World of Reason.

(Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries).

6. Philosophical Sensualism in the Age of Sensibility.

7.The Senses and Aesthetics.

8. The Education of the Senses.

9. The Transformation of the Senses by Industrialization and Technology.

10. Experimental Physiology and the Separation of the Senses.

Part IV The 'Rediscovery' of the Senses in the Twentieth Century.

11. Touching - or The New Pleasure in the Body.

12. Tasting - or What do Fast Food and Nouvelle Cuisine Share in Common?.

13. Scenting - or From Deodorization to Reodorization.

14. Listening Effects - or The Art and Power of Noise.

15. Ways of Seeing -or The Human Rights of the Eye.

16. Psi-Phenomena - or The Exploration of Extra-Sensory Perception.

Outlook.

17. Cyberspace and the Future of the Senses.

Notes.

Index