The German tradition of psychology in literature and thought, 1700-1840 / Matthew Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Matthew, 1964- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in German.

Cambridge studies in German

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature & Thought, 1700-1840

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to German intellectual and cultural life, well in advance of similar developments in the English-speaking world. Matthew Bell explores how this happened, by analysing the expressions of psychological theory in Goethe's Faust, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and in the works of Lessing, Schiller, Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann. This study pays special attention to the role of the German literary renaissance of the last third of the eighteenth century in bringing psychological theory into popular consciousness and shaping its transmission to the nineteenth century. All German texts are translated into English, making this fascinating area of European thought fully accessible to English readers for the first time.

Contents:

1. The 'long past' : psychology before 1700

2. The Enlightenment : rationalism and sensibility

3. Melancholy titans and suffering women in storm and stress drama

4. Empirical psychology and classicism : Moritz, Schiller, Goethe

5. Idealism's campaign against psychology

6. Romanticism and animal magnetism

7. After romanticism : the physiological unconscious.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-294) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15227-5

1-280-20286-6

0-511-12216-0

0-511-11573-3

0-511-19918-X

0-511-29990-7

0-511-48572-7

0-511-11518-0

OCLC:

171137226