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Culture, Embodiment and the Senses

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.260
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2005English
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Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of sensory experience. The subject will address western philosophical debates about mind, brain, emotion, and the body and the historical value placed upon sight, reason, and rationality, versus smell, taste, and touch as acceptable modes of knowing and knowledge production.

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