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The Sciences of the Soul
Fernando Vidal
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Description for The Sciences of the Soul
Hardcover. Explains 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. This title reveals that psychology existed before the eighteenth century essentially as a "physics of the soul". Translator(s): Brown, Saskia. Num Pages: 440 pages, 3 halftones, 14 line drawings, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
"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 the soul", and it belonged as much to natural philosophy as to Christian anthropology. It remained so until ... Read more
"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 the soul", and it belonged as much to natural philosophy as to Christian anthropology. It remained so until ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226855868
SKU
V9780226855868
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About Fernando Vidal
Fernando Vidal is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author of Piaget before Piaget. Saskia Brown has translated many books from French, including Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law, by Alain Supiot.
Reviews for The Sciences of the Soul
"The Sciences of the Soul is clearly the product of a substantial period of sustained research. It will set the framework for research in the history of psychology in the period from 1600 to 1850 for many years to come and will also entail changes in the usual discussion of the 'origin' of psychology as a discipline." (Gary Hatfield, author ... Read more