Making spirit matter : neurology, psychology, and selfhood in modern France / Larry Sommer McGrath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrath, Larry Sommer, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritualism (Philosophy).

Mind and body--France.

Mind and body.

Philosophy, French--19th century.

Philosophy, French.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy and science--France.

Philosophy and science.

France--Intellectual life--19th century.

France.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to explain it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's 'Making Spirit Matter' studies how a particularly productive and influential group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French thinkers attempted to solve this puzzle by showing the mutual dependence of spirit and matter.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Formations of French Spiritualism

Chapter 2 Measuring the Machinery of the Brain

Chapter 3 Science and Spirit in the Classroom

Chapter 4 Locating Selfhood in the Brain

Chapter 5 The Institutions of the Intellect, or Spirit contra Kant

Chapter 6 Struggles for Spirit’s Catholic Soul

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

List of Archives Consulted

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).

ISBN:

0-226-69996-X

OCLC:

1193132142