调适审美体验以感知差异

This paper argues that carefully curated aesthetic experience can bring us into proximity with perceptual modes we cannot live ourselves. When speaking of differently abled bodies and sensory worlds, empathy often falls short or worse, becomes a kind of violence. The desire to understand another can flatten, appropriate, or misrepresent. But if we give up the idea of total comprehension, we might find something more durable: proximity, contact, and a shared vulnerability. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment, I argue that carefully curated aesthetic experience address