To Make the Hands Impure: Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy

by Adam Zachary Newton

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How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?

For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823263525

ISBN13:9780823263523

Release Date:December 2014

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:502 Pages

Weight:1.54 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality

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