Download or read book The Gift of Touch written by Stephen David Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Western ideas of corporeal bodies from Plato to contemporary feminist and postructuralist writings, with the purpose of reexamining the good, identified in Plato as that which gives authority to knowledge and truth.