Charting the Sensorial Revolution - David Howes

Senses & Society
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Book Reviews
For a more nuanced interpretation see Fingarette (1972) or even
Richards (1932). Another missed opportunity has to do with
Farquhar’s failure to directly address the issue, which would
certainly have concerned Marx, of which regime change – the
end of capitalism (as Marx knew it) or the end of communism
(as Mao knew it) – ultimately leads to the “emancipation of the
senses” and the transmutation of the latter into “theoreticians” (in
Marx’s classic phrase).
References
Classen, Constance. 1997. “Foundations for an Anthropology of the
Senses,” International Social Science Journal, 153: 401–20.
——— 1998. The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the
Aesthetic Imagination. London: Routledge.
Clifford, James. 1986. “Introduction: Partial Truths.” In James Clifford
and George E. Marcus, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of
Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fingarette, Herbert. 1972. Confucius – The Secular as Sacred. New
York: Harper.
Howes, David. 2003. Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in
Culture and Social Theory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press.
——— 2005. “Sensescapes: Embodiment, Culture and Environment.”
In Constance Classen (ed.) The Book of Touch. Oxford: Berg.
Richards, I.A. 1932. Mencius on the Mind. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul Ltd.
Roberts, Lissa. 2004. “The Death of the Sensuous Chemist: The
‘New’ Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous Technology.”
In David Howes (ed.) Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture
Reader. Oxford: Berg.
Tromp, Marlene, Gilbert, Pamela K., and Haynie, Aeron, eds. 2000.
Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Albany:
State University of New York Press.