Bibliograph

Where things touch, a meditation on beauty, Bahar Orang

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Where things touch, a meditation on beauty, Bahar Orang

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Where things touch

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Bahar Orang

Series statement

Essais series, 10

Sub title

a meditation on beauty

Summary

To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch. Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature, and the various non-human worlds that surround us. Eloquent and meditative in its approach, beauty, here, beyond base expectations of frivolity and superficiality, is conceived of as a thing to recover. Where Things Touch is an exploration of an essential human pleasure, a necessary freedom by which to challenge what we know of ourselves and the world we inhabit

Target audience

adult

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