New publication: Wilma Scheschonk and Thomas Moser (eds.): Energetic Bodies

11 July 2022

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.

It is precisely these "energetic bodies" that the present anthology by Wilma Scheschonk and Thomas Moser is dedicated to. The transdisciplinary individual contributions to the third volume of the series »Imaginarien der Kraft« published by De Gruyter 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.

Wilma Scheschonk and Thomas Moser (eds.): Energetic Bodies. Sciences and Aesthetics of Strength and Strain. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. 196 pages. ISBN: 978-3-11-076716-2.