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The first edition of this book (E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch, Academic Press, 1978) has long been out of print. But interest in Weber's work continues and this revised edition commemorates the bicentenary of his birth. The introduction has been expanded to include further information on Weber's life and times, and on recent research relevant to Weber's own work. The translations of Weber's main works of psychological interest (De Tactu and Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefuhl) contain minor changes, and the footnotes and indexes have been updated. The reader will find here much more than those topics for which Weber is best known - the two-point threshold, experiments on weight discrimination and a statement of what is now called Weber's Law. Weber also made interesting remarks on many aspects of sensory psychology - on left-right asymmetry in sensitivity, on visual resolution, the binocular combination of colours, the moon illusion, on summation, inhibition and adaptation in sensory systems, on the difference between simultaneous and successive presentations, on selective attention, the externalisation of sensations and the difference between sensation and perception. As a scientist, Weber was working in the new area of experimental psychology; as a philosopher, he bridged the gap between philosophy and experiment. His work remains of interest to historians of science, to philosophers and to sensory psychologists.

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Die aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Diskussion zum Thema >>Körper<< beschränkt sich häufig auf individuelle Ausdrucksformen und Befindlichkeiten - Berührungen zwischen den Körpern hingegen sind weder empirisch noch theoretisch von Interesse. Doch ohne die Berücksichtigung dieser grundlegenden Beziehungsform kann die soziale Entwicklung des Menschen nicht hinreichend verstanden werden. Daher ist eine Neuorientierung erforderlich, die Einsichten in geteilte Körperwirklichkeiten im interdisziplinären Diskurs verankert. Der vorliegende Band schlie�t eine Forschungslücke, indem er einen breiten, interdisziplinären Überblick zu einem bisher vernachlässigten Thema bietet. Dabei schlie�t er an Alltagssituationen an und zeigt verschiedenste, teilweise tabuisierte ethische Problemlagen bei Körperkontakten auf - etwa in pädagogischen oder medizinischen Situationen.

Interdisziplinäre Forschung. --- Körperkontakt. --- Touch --- Touch --- Touch. --- Touch. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Interdisziplinäre Forschung. --- Körperkontakt.

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The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating to each other has barely been considered by our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch, we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our bodies. Then we remain immersed in a natural or a cultural universe, incapable of reaching our own individuation and of knowing our fundamental difference from the other(s). Desire, in particular sexuate desire, is a call for touching one another anew. But this touch requires us to have gained our autonomy and to be able to open up to and commune with the other as transcendent to ourselves while staying in ourselves. This book unveils and explores how touch can act as a basic living mediation in love and, more generally, in our comprehensive individual and col-lective human becoming.It also considers how touch can contribute to founding a culture respectful of difference(s) instead of subjecting them to an ideal of same-ness. We need touch as mediation to fulfil our humanity and to build a truly human thinking and world. Luce Irigaray is a retired director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris. She has doctorates in philosophy ( 1974), in linguistics (1968) and in philosophy and literature(1955). She is trained in psychoanalysis and in yoga. She has written more than thirty books translated in various languages. She has also co-edited three books composed of texts by early career researchers as part of a long term undertaking to give birth to a new human being and construct a new world.

Interpersonal communication. --- Touch --- Philosophy.

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Tactile sensors. --- Force sensors --- Touch sensors --- Detectors