Energetic Bodies

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Energetic Bodies is written by Thomas Moser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110767163 (ISBN 10) and 9783110767162 (ISBN 13).

Throughout the fin de siècle, "energy" was a buzzword that was used far beyond the boundaries of the sciences to negotiate the formative scope as well as limits of Western modernity. The human body was positioned at the center of the visualization of this enigmatic drive of all movement in discourses on labor and economics, physical culture, sport, art, and literature. It was through the body that this all-pervading and conditioning physical principle as well as its perceptual qualities were to be made tangible. This volume is dedicated to these "energetic bodies." The transdisciplinary individual contributions trace body scenarios of force and energy over the course of history from 1800 to the peak phase around 1900 and up to the present.