Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities

Mack, Michael

doi:10.1007/s11061-010-9208-2

Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities

Mack, Michael

Authors

Michael Mack

Abstract

This article uses a reading of Herder’s early essay Sculpture to locate Herder’s place within the complex genealogies of thought regarding the mind–body problem. It analyses how Herder discusses sculpture and touch by combining an idealist with a materialist position. Herder theorizes sculpture in order to close the gap between mind and body as well as that between art and life. According to Danto, this non-dualist approach shapes much of the contemporary art scene.

Citation

Mack, M. (2010). Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities. Neophilologus, 94(4), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-010-9208-2

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2010
Deposit Date	Jun 18, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Jun 18, 2015
Journal	Neophilologus
Print ISSN	0028-2677
Electronic ISSN	1572-8668
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	94
Issue	4
Pages	541-555
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-010-9208-2
Keywords	Spinoza, Immanent alterity, Materialism, Idealism, Giorigio Agamben, Embodimen.
Related Public URLs	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11061-010-9208-2#page-2