Abstract
This article, written at the intersection of critical philosophy and somatics, explores the idea that somatic practices have something to teach philosophy. To do so, it places Frederic Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), the founder of The Alexander Technique, in conversation with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1779–1831). Alexander's autobiographical narrative provides an account of his revelatory journey that helps follow Hegel's philosophical journey. The article focuses on Alexander's third book, The Use of the Self, and on one section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, 'The Unhappy Consciousness', to ask whether the discourse and practice of The Alexander Technique can provide a methodology for reading Hegel, a way to enter into the performance of the Phenomenology through a 'somatic mode of attention', one that privileges the lived experience of movement as a source for understanding philosophical texts.
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