Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep elik 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.
Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep elik 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