This book is a reflection, commentary, and further development of the research on Edmund Husserls kinaesthesis. It not only highlights explicit kinaesthetic lines of Husserls thought such as in Thing and Space or Ideas II but also ties together less explored lines of Husserls work. In such a way, kinaesthesis is explored not only in view of perception, but also in relation to imagination, memory, phantasy, and empathy as well as the corporeal and egotic. Karoblis argues that, according to Husserl, kinaesthesis differs from proprioception not just as another kind of sensation, but as an egotic element (rather than hyletic) of the self.
It is remarkable that the phenomenological tradition always treated Husserls concept of kinesthesis instrumentally and as a secondary subject, and extremely rarely as an autonomous topic and a primary subject. This text fills the lacunae and also describes kinaesthesis as a practical guide of sorts, following late texts of Husserl. It appeals to scholars in the field of phenomenology, and in particular to those interested in Husserl's legacy, yet also to the experts of corporeal practices such as sport and dance; theatre and music.
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1. The Puzzle of Kinaesthesis.
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2. Husserl's
methodology: phenomenological reduction and eidetic variation.
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3.
Kinaesthetic series.
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4. Kinds of movement.
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5. Mereology:
body, movement and action.
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6. Implicit memory and kinaesthesis.-
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7. Kinaesthetic imagination.
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8. Corporeal directionality.-
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9. Dyadic empathy.
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10. Triadic Empathy.
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11.
Kinaesthetic Beauty: in steps of Friedrich Schiller.
Gediminas Karoblis is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and Coordinator of Choreomundus Erasmus Mundus Master in Dance and Movement as Practical Knowledge and Heritage 2025-2031 . He is a member of international scholars' associations and joint teaching programmes in dance, heritage and philosophy. His research interests include phenomenology and motion capture, dance and movement analysis, modern ballroom dance history and heritage. He is an author of Kinaesthesis and Self-Awareness (2023), Productive kinaesthetic imagination (2018), Dance and Dizziness: Knut Hamsun and Fyodor Dostoyevskys Kinesthetic Imagination of Collapse (2015), Dance, Love and National Awakening in Late Nineteenth-Century Lithuania (2013), Ballroom Dance the Spectre of Bourgeois in a Communist Society (2010), co-authored Cultural sustainability - Art and Ubuntu as rationales for dancing (2024), Decolonising or recolonising: Struggles on cultural heritage (2021), Writing a dance: Epistemology for Dance Research (2010).
