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It is only when we are blind that experience is possible, Müller says, or in other words, when we take the hand off the banister, as Hannah Arendt has claimed for thinking. In that sense there is no writing that does not involve the affirmation of a certain headlessness, of proflection or precipitancy.

The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “pre-reflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience.

The question of art’s ability to speak to that which is unknowable, unspeakable and alien has been a long tradition held in Romanticism and Realism, the former being associated with the subjective physiologies of the individual and the latter being associated with more objective and scientific aims.
