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Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning
ISBN: 9780231548977
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Contingency (Philosophy); Senses and sensation;

Liane Carlson historicizes contingency by tying it to its theological and etymological roots in "touch," contending that its disruptive power is specific to our current moment. A strikingly original reconsideration of one of continental philosophy and critical theory's most cherished concepts, this book reveals the limits of historicist accounts.

Liane Carlson (PhD, Religion, Columbia) is Lecturer and Stewart Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Religion Department at Princeton University. She has published articles in the journals Critical Research in Religion, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Journal of Religion, and Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is a founding and steering committee member of the Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group of the American Academy of Religion. This is her first book.Liane Carlson is the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion in International Affairs Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.