The Sciences of the Soul : The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
Fernando. Vidal
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Originaltittel | [ Sciences de l'âme XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. .] English
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| Utgitt | Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (429 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Ad Limen; 1. The "Century of Psychology"; 2. "Psychology" in the Sixteenth Century:A Project in the Making?; 3. From the Science of the Living Beingto the Science of the Human Mind; 4. Psychology in the Age of Enlightenment; 5. Historicizing Psychology; 6. Psychology and the History of Humankind; 7. Anthropology's Place in the Encyclopedias; 8. Human Perfectibility and the Primacy of Psychology; 9. Psychology, the Body, and Personal Identity; Appendix 1: The Two Editions of Goclenius's Psychologia. - Appendix 2: Anthropologie and Psychologie in theParis and Yverdon EncyclopédiesAppendix 3: Articles in the Yverdon EncyclopédieBelonging to Psychology and Their Placein the Paris Encyclopédie; Bibliography; Index. - The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Fernando Vidal traces this development through university courses and textbooks, encyclopedias, and nonacademic books, as well as through various histories of psychology. Vidal reveals that psychology existed before the eighteenth century essentially as a "physics of
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| ISBN | 0226855864. - 9780226855868
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