On 'Inner Touch' and the Moving Body: Aisthêsis, Kinaesthesis, Aesthetics"

Sponsored by the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research at Duquesne University. Presented by: Mark Paterson, Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication at the University of Pittsburgh and Scholar in Residence in the McAnulty College at Duquesne University on December 5, 2013.
A series of neurological findings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to chart sensations felt within the body, especially the moving body, yet which lay outside the usual Aristotelian five-fold model of the senses. Like the maps drawn up by explorers of unknown lands, this neurological cartography was pioneering yet contentious. From Charles Bell's indistinct 'muscle sense' (1826), to H. Charles Bastian's identification of a feedback mechanism known as 'kinesthesis' (1869), and later Charles Sherrington's 'proprio-ception' (1906), the identification of such neurological mechanisms failed to converge neatly into a unified map. Even today, thinking about our internal sensations -- "inner touch" -- remains disjointed. I therefore return to Aristotle's notion of sensory faculty (aesthesis) and its influence as a form of "inner touch" well into the Early Modern period to consider the role of somatic sensations within bodily movement, and point to recent research in the performing arts that attempts to gauge the aesthetic worth of such bodily sensations.

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yeah this would be fine in a classroom but as a youtube video it just comes across as rambly, hesitant and wooly. I'm sure he's a clever guy but he needs to work on his delivery.