Kinaesthetic knowing: aesthetics, epistemology, modern design

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-19th-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs 'kinaes...

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1. Verfasser: Alexander, Zeynep Çelik (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago The University of Chicago Press 2017
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https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226485348.001.0001
Zusammenfassung:Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-19th-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs 'kinaesthetic knowing.' In this book, Alexander offers the first major intellectual history of kinaesthetic knowing and its influence on the formation of modern art and architecture and especially modern design education. Focusing in particular on Germany and tracing the story up to the start of World War II, Alexander reveals the tension between intellectual meditation and immediate experience to be at the heart of the modern discourse of aesthetics, playing a major part in the artistic and teaching practices of numerous key figures of the period, including Heinrich Wl̈fflin, Hermann Obrist and August Endell.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (336 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780226485348
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226485348.001.0001

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