Description
Book SynopsisThis accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world.
Bringing together psychological, philosophical and cultural perspectives, the book examines the subjective feeling of movement in a cross-disciplinary manner. It discusses kinaesthesia through the framework of embodied cognition and outlines how contemporary discussion in psychology and phenomenology can inform our understanding of everyday experience. The book also sketches a framework for full appreciation of the sense of movement in performance and cultural life, discussing how a sense of movement is central to one's agency. It is composed in four movements', aiming to achieve a connected and original argument for why movement matters, an argument exemplified in dance. The first movement explains the science of kinaesthesia and the history of the concept to a discussion of current thought infor
Table of Contents
Preface
List of illustrations
Part 1. First movement: theme and variations
1. Being alive
2. What is the sense of movement?
3. Kinaesthesia appears on the map of science
Part 2. Second movement: andante
4. The feel for reality
5. Phenomenology and embodiment
6. Movement and time
Part 3. Third movement: minuet and trio
7. Free dance
8. Walking
9. The dance of life
Part 4. Fourth movement: allegro
10. Gesture
11 .Agency
12. Finale – con brio
References and selected reading
Index
