Details

ISBN-10: 022671036X
ISBN-13: 9780226710365
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 07/17/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.95" H

The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

Translator: Saskia Brown

Paperback

Price: $43.00

Overview

Fernando Vidal’s trailblazing text on the origins of psychology traces the development of the discipline 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. Originally published in 2011, The Sciences of the Soul continues to be of wide importance in the history and philosophy of psychology, the history of the human sciences more generally, and in the social and intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe.

Read More
Reviews
"Firm scholarly conviction has it that psychology began as a scientific discipline only in the last part of the nineteenth century. Fernando Vidal thoroughly overturns that assumption in his compelling historical reconstruction of the development of psychology from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He shows how the concept of soul, initially caught in scholastic rationalism, underwent an empirical transformation from the form of the body to the activities of the mind, a mind whose intense thought had been compared to 'a ligature applied to all of the nerves.' By contrast, Vidal's work–linguistically adroit, amazingly comprehensive, and scholarly satisfying–releases the nervous fluids to invigorate the mind of the reader. No other history comes close to his exquisite accomplishment."–Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago
More Reviews

Details

ISBN-10: 022671036X
ISBN-13: 9780226710365
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 07/17/2020
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.95" H
Skip to content