some have argued that in earlier societies we gave more priority to the "sense perception of tongue, nose, and fingers" and that this has gradaually withdrawn to the eyes
a "restructuring of the cultural hierarchies of the senses"
see R. Mandrou on French modernity and Norbert Elias's Civilizing Process
> from Barbara Duden's The Women Beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)
> tagged with #visual_culture, #sense, #to_read
> created March 28, 2026 at 9:26:26 AM
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