Aesthetics of touch
Research Article
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Victor O. Pigulevsky
South Russian Humanitarian Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
urgi@urgi.info
Elibrary Author_id 408390How to CitePigulevsky V.O. Aesthetics of touch. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2023. Vol. 12. No. 3. P. 57-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2023.3.5
Abstract
Objective of the study: rethinking the subject field of aesthetics from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. The methodological basis of the research is based on the conceptual positions of the risk society (W. Beck, O. N. Yanitsky); the institutional approach in accordance with the neo-institutional concept of D. North; the cultural direction of the theory of trust as a tool for measuring social capital (P. Shtompka, F. Fukuyama). Research results. The essence of the aesthetics of touching surfaces is to ensure the comfort of existence, in a combination of beauty and usefulness. The work of imagination in a situation of absorption of the body by the elements of the world gives rise to dreams that feed the mythology of the soul. In this regard, the aesthetic is revealed as fantastic. The semantics of gesture and facial expressions become the background of the aesthetics of nonverbal communication – likes and dislikes, love or hate, pleasure and disgust. Communication reveals the whole spectrum of aesthetic and psychological relationships from pleasure to disgust, from pain and tragedy to joy and admiration. Prospects of the study. This topic may be of wide interest in the study of philosophical anthropology, cultural studies, medicine.Keywords:aesthetics, touch, high sensitivity, pleasant tactility, tactile attractiveness, charming, pain, disgustingReferences
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ArticleReceived: 10.04.2023
Accepted: 27.06.2023
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