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The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of psychology
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Sciences de l'âme. English
Title
The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of psychology / Fernando Vidal ; translated by Saskia Brown.
ISBN
9780226855868 (alk. paper)
0226855864 (alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Les sciences de l'âme: XVIe-XVIIIe siècle.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The "Century of psychology"
Psychology as a discipline
A long past but a short history?
Psychology in the sixteenth century: a project in the making?
The function of the neologism "psychology"
Aristotelianism and galenism
Psychologia and the scientia de anima
Rudolph Goclenius's psychologia
From the science of the living being to the science of the human mind
Psychology as the generic science of the living being
Psychologia and empsychologia
On whether de anima books can themselves constitute a science
From soul-form to soul-mind
Psychology as a metaphysics of the rational soul
The new psychology: Christian Wolff
Psychology in the age of enlightenment
Psychology, anthropology and the human sciences
A republic of letters
Methodological discussions in enlightenment psychology
"The best way to perfect this fine science"
Historicizing psychology
Inventing a bibliographic tradition
Constructing a history for psychology
"Psychologiae historico-criticae speciminae"
The history of the "theory of ideas"
Philosophers write the history of psychology
Psychology and the history of humankind
Friedrich August Carus and the "history of humanity"
The primitives and the ancients
Toward a total history of psychology
The psychology of the Hebrews
Homeric psychology
Anthropology's place in the encyclopedias
Enlightenment encyclopedias
The syntax of the Encyclopédies
The Paris and Yverdon Encyclopédies
The "systèmes figurés"
Anthropology in the text
The anthropological transformation of morals
Human perfectibility and the primacy of psychology
Psychology in the Paris Encyclopédie
Psychology in the Yverdon Encyclopédie
The fields claimed for psychology
Metaphysics
Logic
Morals
The psycho-anthropology of perfectibility
The union and interaction of the soul and the body
Psychology, the body and personal identity
The soul, the body and the "completeness of the nerve"
Psycho-theology and "modern identity"
The body in resurrection
The loss of the body
The seed and the brain
The emergence of the cerebral subject.
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