ABSTRACT
Here’s a ‘strange space’ (Figure 4.1): a book illustration that refers to the ‘strange spaces’ of the interior of the human body – and asks its readers to subject themselves to a strange process by which they can come to know their strange selves. It was originally printed in a 1926 volume of Fritz Kahn’s Das Leben des Menschen, a profusely illustrated, encyclopedic work on the science of the human body (Kahn 1923-1931, vol. 3 [1926]: pl. 11).2 The series was aimed at a mass audience. In different editions, it probably sold more than 70,000 copies, a fairly robust readership for Weimar Germany.
