Sciences of the Soul - The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

Klappentext Translation of: Les sciences de l'ame: XVIe-XVIIIe siecle. Zusammenfassung 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".

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• Authors: Fernando Vidal, Fernando/ Brown Vidal, Vidal Fernando
• Assisted by: Saskia Brown (Translation), Brown Saskia (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780226855868
• ISBN: 978-0-226-85586-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800