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The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of psychology / Fernando Vidal ; translated by Saskia Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vidal, Fernando.
- Standardized Title:
- Sciences de l'âme. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology--History.
- Psychology.
- History.
- Psychology--History--18th century.
- Soul.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Les sciences de l'âme: XVIe-XVIIIe siècle.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226855868
- 0226855864
- OCLC:
- 711050901
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