Author: REED, EDWARD S
Title: From soul to mind : the emergence of psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James / Edward S. Reed
Description: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press 1997. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; xvi. 283 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; In search of psychology -- The impossible science -- Frankenstein's science -- The breakdown in the concert of European ideas -- The brief life of natural metaphysics -- 1848 and all that -- The three unconsciousnesses and how they grew -- The apotheosis of positivism -- The anomalous Mr. Darwin -- The generation of 1879. or how philosophy emerged from psychology -- William James: psychology as a science of experience. Summary; Early in the nineteenth century. psychology was considered a science of the soul; by the end of the century. it had abandoned the soul to become a science of the mind. says Edward Reed. In this lively and original account of psychology's formative years. Reed relates the failures and successes of the attempts of nineteenth-century thinkers and practitionersincluding philosophers. theologians. medical workers. mesmerists. and even poets - to make psychology into a science. From Soul to Mind introduces a cast that includes not only well-known scientists and philosophers (Kant. Reid. Darwin. James) but also figures important in their time who are largely forgotten today (R. H. Lotze in Germany. G. H. Lewes in Britain) and literary notables (Mary Shelley. E. T. A. Hoffmann. Edgar Allan Poe). Countering the widespread belief that psychology is the offspring of philosophy. Reed contends that modern philosophy arose when academic. philosophers sought to distinguish themselves from psychologists. This account of psychology's formative years tells the story of the failures and successes of 19th-century thinkers and practitioners to make psychology into a science. It also situates psychological developments within the social. religious. and literary contexts of the time. Subjects; 19th century. Psychology — History — 19th century. Psychology — history. History. 19th Century. Psychology — history. Psychology ; History of ideas. intellectual history. Genre; Bibliography. ISBN: 0300075812. Weight in Kg appr.:

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