Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Dewey and the Alexander Technique

From Armstrong's Modernism, Technology, and the Body, page 107- account of Dewey's affection for the Alexander Technique, conceived by F. Matthias Alexander, which sought to create habits by repetition - reflective mind (rational mind, not subconscious) can inculcate these new habits - Randolph Bourne rejected it in the New Republic.
Alexander's books: Man's Supreme Inheritance (1910); Conscious Control (1912)

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