The Mirror of the Self - Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in th

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch.

Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an crotic element as well.

In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that th