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Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to piety, from manicure to magic, the book discovers touch in a critical period of its historical development, in anatomy and society. It features new interpretations of two landmarks of western civilization: Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation of Adam and Calvin's doctrine of election. It also accords special attention to the typing of women as sensual creatures by using their hands as a heuristic. Its alternative interpretations explore in theory and in practice the sensuality, the creativity, and the plain utility of hands, thus integrating biology and culture.

Human body (Philosophy) --- Touch --- Hand --- History --- 364.4 --- Body, Human (Philosophy) --- -Hand --- -Touch --- -Feeling --- Haptic sense --- Haptics --- Tactile perception --- Tactual perception --- Somesthesia --- Hands --- Paw --- Paws --- Arm --- Left- and right-handedness --- Philosophy --- Hulpverlening. Bijstand --- -Miscellanea --- Miscellanea --- -Hulpverlening. Bijstand --- 364.4 Hulpverlening. Bijstand --- -364.4 Hulpverlening. Bijstand --- Feeling --- Body [Human ] (Philosophy) --- 16th century --- Corps (Philosophie) --- Histoire --- Miscellanea. --- Michelangelo Buonarroti, --- Calvin, Jean, --- Human body (Philosophy) - History - 16th century --- Touch - Miscellanea --- Hand - Miscellanea --- Mano --- Tatto --- Iconografia --- Sec. 16