Brennpunkt „reading animal“. Hermann Cohn und die Genese der Lesehygiene.

Autor/in	Grütter, Fabian
Titel	Brennpunkt „reading animal“. Hermann Cohn und die Genese der Lesehygiene.
Quelle	In: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, (2015) 4, S.305-320Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0170-6233
DOI	10.1002/bewi.201501731
Schlagwörter	Lesehygiene; Overburdening; Fin de siècle; Hygiene of the eye; Reading hygiene; Ophthalmology; Kurzsichtigkeit; Augenhygiene; School desk; Überbürdung; Ophthalmologie; Myopia; Schulbank; Typography; Typographie
Abstract	Focal Point “Reading Animal”. Hermann Cohn and the Emergence of the Fin de Siècle Hygiene of Reading . From the 1860s onward, ‘eye experts’ increasingly fretted the alleged surge of myopia attributed to an increase of reading matter circulating in schools. In order to avert the inauspicious prospects, revised school desks designed to prevent children from becoming myopic were introduced. During the 1880s, said experts turned to printed matter, maintaining that books must become more reader‐ friendly. Along with the turn to books, a peculiar shift within the hygiene discourse occurred: While the ill addressed by school desk‐revisions was myopia, the goal of revising book design was to make reading less tiring. This paper explores both the shift from the hygiene of the eye to the hygiene of reading as well as the materialization of the stipulations and claims made by reading hygienists. In doing so, the paper demonstrates that optimizing the reading process was closely linked to a fear of overburdening and fatigue which expressed itself in the psychopathological discourse of the time.
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Update	2023/3/07