{"product_id":"fragility-marlies-de-munck-9789493246102","title":"Fragility: To Touch and Be Touched","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the enhancement of aesthetic perception can redeem life's precarity: a manifesto from the authors of \u003ci\u003eNearness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an era of intense competition and individualism, we tend to hide our weak spots. When something comes too close and threatens to touch us, we shield our vulnerability. This means that there is less and less room for real human encounter. The forces of quantification and evaluation push people back further and further into a virtual shell.\u003cbr\u003eIn this intimate volume, authors Marlies De Munck and Pascal Gielen and artist Lotte Lara Schrer make a plea for openness and compassion--because all this sheltering keeps us from touching and from being touched.\u003cbr\u003eAlongside Schrer's drawings, De Munck and Gielen warmly advocate an aesthetic skill: the ability to experience and embrace a ramshackle and fragile reality, and still understand it as a coherent whole. This is the power of culture: to reconcile us with life, even amid its turbulence, incoherence and precarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marlies de Munck, Pascal Gielen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9493246108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789493246102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Valiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.50h x 4.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Marlies de Munck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079668756735,"sku":"9789493246102","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41fdd942-8753-4fd0-a4d5-507b7a01a720.jpg?v=1685482455","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fragility-marlies-de-munck-9789493246102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}