The Science of Walking: Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Mayer, Andreas

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ISBN 10 : 022632835X ISBN 13 : 9780226328355

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Science of Walking recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance yet essential to our human nature: walking. Most people see walking as a natural and unremarkable activity of daily life, yet the mechanism has long puzzled scientists and doctors, who considered it an elusive, recalcitrant, and even mysterious act. In The Science of Walking, Andreas Mayer provides a history of investigations of the human gait that emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines, including physiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, anthropology, and psychiatry.
 
Looking back at more than a century of locomotion research, Mayer charts, for the first time, the rise of scientific endeavors to control and codify locomotion and analyzes their social, political, and aesthetic ramifications throughout the long nineteenth century. In an engaging narrative that weaves together science and history, Mayer sets the work of the most important representatives of the physiology of locomotion―including Wilhelm and Eduard Weber and Étienne-Jules Marey―in their proper medical, political, and artistic contexts. In tracing the effects of locomotion studies across other cultural domains, Mayer reframes the history of the science of walking and gives us a deeper understanding of human movement.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Andreas Mayer is CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre Alexandre Koyré and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of several books, most recently Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Tilman Skowroneck is a senior lecturer of musical performance at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and cofounder of the translation firm Lark & Robin.


Robin Blanton is cofounder of the translation firm Lark & Robin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022632835X
• ISBN 13: 9780226328355
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible