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Book SynopsisTracing a developing fascination with rhythm''s significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on ''rhythm'' and its cognates largely arose, Laura Marcus demonstrates, from the desire to reclaim or retain human and natural measures in the face of the coming of the machine and the speed of technological innovation. Rhythmical Subjects uncovers the disparate routes by which rhythm acquired its newfound ability to link ancient and modern forms of intellectual inquiry, and to fathom and re-invigorate temporal articulations of modern subjective life. Among the numerous intellectual and artistic developments set in a new light by this brilliantly wide-ranging book are: the long line of philosophical a
Table of ContentsIsobel Armstrong and Josephine McDonagh: Introduction 1: Rhythm Studies: Science and Aesthetics 2: Rhythm, Art, and Experience: The Rhythm of Beauty 3: Communities of Rhythm: Eurythmy and Eurhythmics 4: Rhythm and the Rhythmists: A 'New Age' of Rhythm 5: Vital Rhythms: Art and Literature in Bloomsbury and Beyond 6: The American Rhythm: New Mexico, New Rhythms Steven Connor: Afterword Appendix: Rhythm by Laura Marcus
