Description

Two treatises described by William James as “semi-philosophical, semi-humorous,” Comparative Anatomy of Angels (1825) and On the Dance (1824), are two early texts written by Gustav Fechner under the pseudonym Dr. Mises, published for the first time in Spanish. They offer a glimpse into the world of concepts and images of the founder of psychophysics, whose studies of sensation, synthesized in the Weber-Fechner Law, constitute the source of an emerging psychology, from which both psychoanalysis and the more experimental and behavioral psychology, as well as the so-called “somatic techniques,” will draw.
"A Thought When It Becomes Sensitive ," a text by Marie Bardet that closes the book, traces possible contemporary echoes of Fechner's conceptual images of sensibility and dance for philosophy and bodily and dance practices today. It is a world where German Romanticism and positivist impulses coexist; where strange beings, like angels, live—ideals of a visual-tactile sensibility unfolding along a non-linear series of thresholds between mineral, organic, and human; where a young teenager goes out dancing, ignoring the sermons of her mother and the priest, and can thus, according to Fechner, dispense with any doctor.

Authors
Gustav Fechner
Marie Bardet

Technical specifications
Published by: Cactus Publishing
Translation: Marcos Guntin
Year: 2017
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 15 x 11 cm
Weight: 85 gr
Pages: 112
Spanish
ISBN: 978-987-3831-18-8