How We Became Sensorimotor by Mark Paterson

How We Became Sensorimotor by Mark Paterson

An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses  The years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science’s understanding of the body’s inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor, Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness, the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and embodiment. Each chapter of How We Became Sensorimotor takes a particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Ranging among a diverse array of sensations, including balance, fatigue, pain, the “muscle sense,” and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty termed “motricity,” Paterson’s analysis moves outward from the familiar confines of the laboratory to those of the industrial world and even to wild animals and their habitats. He uncovers important stories, such as how forgotten pain-measurement schemes transformed criminology, or how Penfield’s outmoded concepts of the sensory and motor homunculi of the brain still mar psychology textbooks. Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations and correspondence, How We Became Sensorimotor shows how the shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our understandings of the senses are being extended even today.

"Opening a new chapter in the archaeology of knowledge and the body, How We Became Sensorimotor charts how the inchoate mass of sensations within the bodily interior became the focus of increasingly intensive scientific inquiry from the mid-1800s onwardsTo read this deeply touching book is to come to know one’s innermost self from a rigorously empirical and objective yet intimately familiar angle."—David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto

"Through rigorous archival research and fieldwork, Mark Paterson meticulously documents the historical practices that made the ‘sensorimotor’ body a thinkable concept. Crisscrossing neurology, experimental physiology, phenomenology, and chronophotography, How We Become Sensorimotor tells the fascinating story of the academic disciplines and artistic worlds that lodged internal sensations at the core of what it means to be a body."—Erica Fretwell, author of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

Mark Paterson is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies and Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes, as well as coeditor of Touching Space, Placing Touch.

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Titel	How We Became Sensorimotor
Autor	Mark Paterson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-10-26
Seitenanzahl	320
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