On touching - Jean-Luc Nancy / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Christine Irizarry.

Toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy. English

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

xi, 377 pages ; 23 cm.

When our eyes touch : signing a question, from Aristotle -- This is, of the other. Psyche ; Spacings ; This is my body ; The untouchable, or the vow of abstinence ; Tender ; Nothing to do in sight: there's no 'the' sense of touch -- Exemplary stories of the "flesh". Tangent I ; Tangent II ; Tangent III ; Tangent IV ;Tangent V -- Punctuations: "and you". To self-touch you ; And to you. The incalculable.

Includes bibliographical references and index.