: cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination Constance Classen. creator Constance Classen. text History.-Senses and sensation London ; New York : Routledge , 1998 monographic eng

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234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. This text looks at the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch. pt. I. Cosmology. 1. On the color of angels: the sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier. 2. The breath of God: sacred histories of scent -- pt. II. Gender. 3. The scented womb and the seminal eye: embodying gender codes through the senses. 4. Pens and needles: writing, women's work, and feminine sensibilities -- pt. III. Aesthetics. 5. Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes: crossing sensory borders in the arts. 6. A feel for the world: lessons in aesthetics from the blind. / Constance Classen. Philosophy 152.109 CLA 9780415180740 Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. A-184 A,Nand Gram, Ghaziabad 200703 20201215113508.0